Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

metedeira

English translation:

thread recuperator

Added to glossary by Henrique Magalhaes
Nov 30, 2003 11:36
20 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

metedeira

Portuguese to English Tech/Engineering Textiles / Clothing / Fashion textiles
It is a correcting device for threads coming out of the looms in the textike factiry.
Proposed translations (English)
3 "mending machine"...
5 thread recuperator
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"mending machine"...

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Couldn't find much apart from this:

... foi "metedeira de fios". Esta função caracterizava-se por corrigir defeitos nos tecidos que saíam das fábricas têxteis da Covilhã ...

It seems what she did was the same as below, i.e. mending:

it's not treads that come out of the loom, but the woven cloth. Following the weaving on the loom is a "mending zone".

Maybe the description of the process below offers some help.

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Note added at 1 hr 41 mins (2003-11-30 13:17:52 GMT)
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... oil which was applied to facilitate yarn manufacture and ... a preliminary to finishing, the loom-state fabric ... perched and serious faults are corrected by mending. ...


Mending, Mending Department
Mending is the insertion of yarn into a woven fabric where the Warp, Weft or Pile is missing and the correction of other faults by means of needlework. This is a skilled manual operation.

The Mending Department is the area where woven fabric is taken-in, and processes included are measuring, cleaning, cropping, finishing, Burling mending, and inspecting.
Managers in this area have been.....
Cecil Thomas, Arthur Thorpe, Peter Hepworth, Dickie Bowers, Nigel Ramsden, John Nuttall 1981-1993, Kevin Wilman 1993-1998, Malcolm Sutcliffe 1998
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4 hrs

thread recuperator

seems to be how to say it"

... Textile machinery & accessory/ accessories- elastic yarn warp trimmers ... electrical
central controller, automatic electronic Thread recuperator, electric fabric ...
www.manufacturers.com.tw/textile-thread-manufacturer/ embroidery-thread-taiwan-china.html - 49k - Nov 28, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

Knitting Machine Sources-B2B Taiwan,China Knitting Machines ...
... textile Machinery & accessory/ accessories- elastic yarn warp trimmers ... electrical
central controller, automatic electronic thread recuperator, electric fabric ...
www.manufacturers.com.tw/knitting-machine/ taiwan-knitting-machines-china.html - 44k - Cached - Similar pages
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Asia-Taiwan Sources On-line: Textiles, Garments & Accessories : ...
... textile machinery & accessory/ accessories- elastic yarn warp trimmers ... electrical
central controller, automatic electronic thread recuperator, electric fabric ...
www.textiles.com.tw/z453401e.htm - 35k - Nov 29, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

China Vendor Online
... Main Products : textile machinery & accessory/ accessories- elastic ... electrical central
controller, automatic electronic thread recuperator, electric fabric ...
www.chinavendors.com/.../Elastic-Yarn-Warp-Trimmers/ Elastic-Yarn-Warp-Trimmers.htm - 50k - Cached - Similar pages

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