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Custom Weaving Capabilities & Specifications
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To help serve our customers better, UNIQUE presents the following Wire Cloth references for your use. For questions that are beyond the scope of this material, please contact us for assistance.
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Wire Weaving Capabilities
Wire Cloth Terminology
Types of Weaves
Wire Gauges-Decimal Equivalents
Typical Properties of Woven Metals
Woven Wire Cloth Specifications
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Filter Cloth Specifications
Industry Links
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| Wire Cloth Terminology |
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| BOLTING CLOTH: Relatively light wire meshes produced by weaving finer-than-standard wire diameters for any given mesh. Primarily used in sifting and screen printing; however, its relatively high Open Area percentage makes it a desirable wire mesh used for many applications. |
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| MARKET GRADE: Wire cloth specifications that are commonly woven and stocked. |
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| MESH: Wire cloth specifications that are commonly woven and stocked. |
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| OFF COUNT: A Wire Mesh with a greater number of wires per linear inch in one direction - usually warp (vertical). Also called "Rectangular Mesh". |
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| OPEN AREA: The ratio of the area of the openings to the total area. |
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| OPENING: The distance between two parallel, adjacent wires usually expressed in decimal inches. The theoretical width of an opening is a direct function of the mesh count and wire diameter, both for which there is a manufacturing tolerance. |
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| PLAIN WEAVE: Weave pattern where each wire goes alternately under then over each successive wire. |
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| SELVAGE: The edge or border of wire cloth, finished to prevent unravelling (versus a raw or cut edge.) Types of selvage edges include looped, folded, welded and fine mesh border pattern. |
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| SHUTE WIRES: Wires running across woven cloth, perpendicular to warp wires. Also called "fill" or "weft" wires. |
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| SQUARE MESH: A Wire Mesh with identical number of wires per linear inch in both warp (vertical) and shute (horizontal) directions. |
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| TWILL WEAVE: Weave pattern where each wire goes alternately over two wires then under two successive wires. "Herringbone Twill" is a special type, in which the direction of the twilled weave is reversed at regular intervals to produce a striped effect. |
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| WARP WIRES: Wires running the vertical length of woven Wire Cloth. |
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| WIRE DIAMETER: Normally referred to in decimal parts of an inch; a determining factor in a weave's mesh count. |
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