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What is "Calender" - Definition & Explanation
Last Updated on: 01-Jan-2023 (1 year, 4 months, 21 days ago)
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Calender
A machine in which heavy bowls rotate in contact under mechanical pressure.


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The bowls may be unheated or one may be a thick-walled steel shell heated internally. All bowls may rotate at the same surface speed, or one highly polished and heated bowl may rotate at a higher surface speed than the rest. In certain specialised machines, e.g. for knitted goods, two adjacent bowls may be heated, or, in the case of a laundry calender, one bowl works against a steam chest shaped to the curvature of the bowl.

Calender
A machine with rollers (cylinders) which press the fabric to give a moire or watered effect by flattening the surface in irregular creases.

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