1. What is Blow room?

Blow room is the 1st step of cotton yarn

manufacturing process. It consists of several
machines or operations. Functions of blow room
are---opening, cleaning, mixing & blending and
making suitable package (lap or chute).
Here the material is passed through different
machines by the help of airflow. That is why
scientists had given the name of total operation as
Blow room.

2. Show a list of machines in the Blow room.

A) Bale opener
B) Metal separator
C) Pre-cleaner
D) Multimixer
E) Fine-cleaner
F) Foreign particle separator
G) Chute feed system

3. Describe the functions of Blow room.

A) Opening: At the beginning, bale is taken to

start production. In the bale, cotton is highly
compressed. At the initial stage, by bale opener
(which uses powerful blade), some intermadiate
mass of cotton (flock) is produced. Finally by
applying airflow and beating, flocks are converted
into small mass named tuft. A tuft has a weight of
0.1 mg.

B) Cleaning: When opening occurs at blow room,

continuously dirts are coming out from inside. The
impurities are leaf, bark, seed, sand, plastic, paper,
thread etc. When a small amount of dirt is come out
from cotton, instantly these are to be taken away.
Air suction is the technology to remove the dirts
from cotton.

C) Mixing & blending:

Initially cotton bales are blended on the floor by
making a special plan to fulfill the buyer
requirement as well as to decrease the price. In the
middle of blow room these blended cotton are
mixed perfectly by a special machine named
multimix.

D) Even flow of cotton:

To make an even yarn it is essential to control the
flow of cotton evenly as maximum as possible. That
is why some optical sensors are used here to
control the flow of cotton.

E) Suitable output for carding:

At last modern Blow room produces chute instead
of lap where production is high, time is needed low
and even/regular mass/unit length.