melt-spinningn.
/ˈmɛltspɪnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɛltˌspɪnɪŋ/ Manufacturing Technology.
The extrusion of a heat-softened substance, esp. a polymer, through a spinneret to form a fibre.
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1940 Brit. Patent 528,455 2/1 In melt spinning, the spinneret..is generally placed so that the filaments fall vertically from the spinneret.
1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. ii. 75 With the introduction of nylon an entirely new method of fibre-spinning was established—so-called melt-spinning in which the polymer..is melted in a novel device above the spinneret so that it can by means of a pump be extruded through the multi-holed spinneret into cold air to ensure the immediate solidification of the issuing fluid streams into filaments.
1980 Sci. Amer. Apr. 84/3 The principle underlying their technique for making metallic glasses is still employed today in a method called melt-spinning.
1999 European Rubber Jrnl. (Nexis) 181 22 Fibre suppliers use two basic routes when spinning fibres from polymers: wet spinning and melt spinning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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