DESC:COMPLETE SPECIFICATION

TITLE OF THE INVENTION

[0001] A Method of Representing Distribution of Events and Its Outliers Thereof in a textile material

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The present invention relates to a method of representing the distribution of number of events and / or quality parameter values in a textile material measured by a yarn tester and / or the outlier of events thereof.

PRIORITY CLAIM

[0003] This application for complete specification claims priority from the provisional application No. 201641041064 filed on 01st Dec 2016 for the same invention titled A Method of Representing Distribution of Events and Its Outliers Thereof in a textile material.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0004] Textile materials are tested to measure various quality properties like mass evenness, imperfections, hairiness, foreign fibres, absolute count, tensile strength, elongation, twist etc. Such properties are generally tested in instruments like evenness testers, tensile testers and consolidated as numerical results. Alternatively, results are represented graphically in various forms like mass diagram, histogram, deviation rate curve, spectrogram, variance length curve, stroke diagram, bar charts, line charts, pie charts etc.

[0005] Most of the instrument results give consolidated result of any quality parameter for a defined length. For example, if the number of thick places measured for a total test length of 2.5 km is 250, then the instrument may provide a quality parameter called “Thick/km” as 100.

[0006] Evenness testers provide only the consolidated quality value of any parameter for the defined length, but not the distribution of the events like thick places, thin places, neps etc for the entire test length. The distribution of such events is essentially important for the spinning mills as they help to identify the fault sources easily, quickly and accurately.

[0007] Hence, there is a need to develop a method of representing such distribution of events and / or quality parameters or properties and / outliers for the test length of the textile material according to the user defined distribution columns where each column represents a portion of the test length.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

[0008] The main object of the present invention is to provide a method of representing distribution of events and / or quality properties for the test length of the textile material according to the user defined distribution columns where each column represents a portion of the test length.

[0009]Another object of the present invention is to provide outlier length portions based on user defined set limits and / or based on statistics.

[00010]Further object of the present invention is to provide the combination of both distribution of events and the outlier length portions of the textile material.

[0011] Other objects of the invention will be apparent from the description of the invention herein below.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0012] Accordingly, the present invention relates to a method of representing the distribution of events like thick places, thin places, neps among others and / or quality parameters or properties and / or outliers for the test length of the textile material according to the user defined distribution columns where each column represents a portion of the test length.

[0013] In an embodiment of the present invention, many sub samples are tested in an evenness tester and the distribution of events and / or outliers are represented for all the sub samples in a three dimensional plot.

[0014] In another embodiment, the events and / or outliers measured for each portion of test length and / or time interval are represented for individual sub samples in a two dimensional plot.

[0015] In yet another embodiment, the events and / or outliers measured for each portion of test length and / or time interval are represented for all sub samples in a two dimensional plot.

[0016] In a still another embodiment, more than one event property and / or outliers measured for each portion of test length and / or time interval are represented for individual sub samples in a two dimensional plot graphically.

[0017] In another embodiment, more than one event property and / or outliers measured for each portion of test length and / or time interval are represented for individual sub samples in a two dimensional plot numerically.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0018] The present invention is described in the detailed description and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings, and in which

Figure 1 shows the three dimensional plot representing the distribution of events with outliers of all sub samples tested in an evenness tester.

Figure 2 shows the two dimensional plot representing the distribution of events with outliers of one sub sample tested in an evenness tester.

Figure 3 shows the two dimensional plot representing the distribution of events with outliers of more than one sub samples tested in an evenness tester.

Figure 4 shows the two dimensional plot representing the distribution of more than one event property with outliers for one sub sample tested in an evenness tester wherein the plot is consolidated graphically for various intervals.

Figure 5 shows the two dimensional plot representing the distribution of more than one event property with outliers for one sub sample tested in an evenness tester wherein the plot is consolidated numerically for various intervals.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0019] For the better understanding of the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention, the present invention will be further explained in detail with respect to embodiments and accompanying drawings below. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein only be used for explaining the present invention but not used to limit the present invention.

[0020] The evenness tester measures the properties of textile materials for the entire test length. The present invention deals with the consolidation of the properties numerically and / or graphically for various portion of test length and / or time intervals for the test length of the textile material. The portion of test length and / or time intervals for consolidation can be done either automatically or user defined. These data collection, consolidation and representation are applicable for one or more sub samples tested in the evenness testers.

[0021] In an embodiment of the present invention as represented in figure 1, many sub samples are tested in an evenness tester, events are measured and recorded by the evenness tester at regular length and / or time intervals, properties of the yarn and / or events are consolidated for each portion of test length and / or time interval, a three dimensional diagram (1) is created showing the distribution of events for all the sub samples tested for the entire test length wherein X axis (2) represents the test length and / or time with divisions divided, Z axis (4) represents the sub samples and Y axis (3) represents the value i.e. the number of events and / or the parameter value measured. As an example, the parameter value can be the number of imperfections, Unevenness, Hairiness, Tensile properties etc. With such a three dimensional diagram (1), it is easier for the user to interpret and identify the outlier sub samples and also the distribution of events help to attend the exact reason for the faulty textile material measured. The plot also marks the outlier (6) of any sub sample in a different color or pattern or any other methods for demarking the outliers for easy identification. The outlier (6) can be identified either based on user defined set limits or alternatively limits can be derived based on statistics.

[0022] In another embodiment as represented in figure 2, the events measured by the evenness tester are consolidated for various portion of test lengths and / or time intervals in a two dimensional diagram (7) with one plot (5) for one sub sample. The X axis (2) represents the test length and / or time with divisions divided, Y axis (3) represents the number of events and / or the parameter value measured. Outlier (6) portion is marked in a different color or pattern or any other methods for demarking the outliers for easy identification.

[0023] In yet another embodiment as represented in figure 3, the events measured by the evenness tester are consolidated for various portion of test lengths and / or time intervals in a two dimensional diagram (7) with plots (5) for more than one sub sample. The X axis (2) represents the test length and / or time with divisions divided, Y axis (3) represents the number of events and / or the parameter value measured. Outlier (6) portion is marked in a different color or pattern or any other methods for demarking the outliers for easy identification.

[0024] In a still another embodiment as represented in figure 4, more than one event property measured by the evenness tester are consolidated for various portion of test lengths and / or time intervals in a two dimensional diagram (7) with plot (5) for one sub sample. The X axis (2) represents the test length and / or time with divisions divided, Y axis (3) represents the number of events and / or the parameter value measured for more than one event property and / or parameter values stacked one over the other along the Y axis (3). Outlier (6) portion for various sub samples tested are marked in a different color or pattern or any other methods for demarking the outliers for easy identification. Instead of plot (5), bars (8) can also be used for representation.

[0025] In another embodiment as represented in figure 5, more than one event property measured by the evenness tester are consolidated for various portion of test lengths and / or time intervals in a two dimensional diagram (7) with numerical values (9) consolidated for each portion of test length and / or time interval for the sub sample tested. The X axis (2) represents the test length and / or time with divisions divided, Y axis (3) represents the number of events and / or the parameter value measured for more than one event property and / or parameter values stacked one over the other along the Y axis (3). Outlier (6) portion for various sub samples tested are marked in a different color or pattern or any other methods for demarking the outliers for easy identification. ,CLAIMS:CLAIMS

We Claim:

1. A method of representing the distribution of events and / or quality properties and / or outliers of a textile material tested in an evenness tester characterized by consolidation of the distribution of event and / or quality properties and / or outliers numerically and / or graphically for various portion of test length and / or time intervals for the tested sub samples of the textile material wherein the portion of test lengths and / or time intervals is decided either automatically or user defined.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the representation is a three dimensional diagram (1) showing the distribution of events and / quality properties and / outliers (6) for all the tested sub samples of the textile material with X axis (2) representing the test length and / or time, Y axis (3) representing the number of events and / or any other property measured and Z axis (4) representing the sub samples.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the representation is a two dimensional diagram (7) showing the distribution of events and / quality properties and / outliers (6) with one plot (5) for one sub sample of the textile material, the X axis (2) representing the test length and / or time and the Y axis (3) representing the number of events and / or any other property measured.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the representation is a two dimensional diagram (7) showing the distribution of events and / quality properties and / outliers (6) with more than one plot (5) for one or more sub samples of the textile material, the X axis (2) representing the test length and / or time and the Y axis (3) representing the number of events and / or any other property measured.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the representation is a two dimensional diagram (7) showing the distribution of events and / quality properties and / outliers (6) with plot (5) for one sub sample, the X axis (2) representing the test length and / or time and the Y axis (3) representing the number of events and / or the parameter value measured for more than one event property and / or the properties which are stacked one over the other along the Y axis (3) and the plots (5) can be replaced by bars(8) or numerical values (9).

6. The method as claimed in claims 1 to 5, wherein the outliers (6) can be identified either based on user defined set limits for the tested textile material or alternatively limits can be derived based on statistics.

7. The method as claimed in claims 1 to 5, wherein the outliers (6) for various sub samples tested are marked in different colors and / or pattern and / or any other methods of demarking the outliers.