One of the worst things about sewing is finding out that your bobbin — that’s the smaller spool that works together with the needle and the larger spool to make a complete stitch — ran out of thread ...

Filament winding is an automated composites manufacturing process in which a mobile placement device wraps continuous fiber reinforcements (resin-impregnated or dry) around the outer surface of a ...

[Mr Innovative] needed to wind some coils, and decided to make a machine to do the work. Making such machines has become a lot easier over the years. There was a time when we might probably have had ...

Composites technology company Cygnet Texkimp [Northwich, UK] has delivered a four-axis filament winding machine to the National Composites Centre [NCC, Bristol, UK] where it will form part of a new ...

Fibre handling and converting technology company Cygnet Texkimp (Northwich, UK) has developed a way of winding composite fibres at a zero-degree angle to create curved and straight structural parts ...

How does a typical wind-unwind system work? Perhaps the best way to describe this system is by examining a multiple-web converter — a handling system that converts many individual web streams into one ...