16. Thread Package
Thread is sold by length and is sold in a variety of
types of packages to the thread type and its own
use.
1. Spool:
• Smallest Package
• Flanged bobbin packages, once made by wood
but now with plastic.
• Largely used for domestic sewing.
• Used to a small extent on slower industrial
machines.
17. • Parallel wound on to package.
• Not suitable for delivery thread to high speed
industrial machines.
• Around all types of thread are wound as the
spool except textured thread.
19. 2. Cop:
• Small, cylindrical, flangeless tubes on which
thread is wound crosswise.
• Not suitable to use in high speed industrial
machines.
• Widely used in fashionable garments
manufacturing.
• Around all threads are wound in this package
except glazed thread and fine filament.
21. 3. Cone:
• This is angular hollow plastic tube on which
thread is wound cross-wise.
• Around all types of threads are generally wound
and supplied with this package.
• Give trouble free thread delivery at intermittent
or continuous high speed.
• Ideal thread package in garments industry.
• Well suited to automatic machines.
23. 4. Vicone:
• Parallel tubes or low angled cones with an
additional base in the form of a raised flange
which may incorporate a small lip.
• Contains polished or continuous filament thread.
• Less possibility of thread wrapping with the
package stand at loose condition due to lipped
flange.
27. 6. Container:
• Very large package.
• Used to wound filament threads.
• Used for that filament thread which are not
controllable in normal thread packages.
• Have an arrangement to apply lubricant on to
the thread during unwinding.
29. 7. Cocoon:
• Self supporting, centerless thread packages.
• Specially designed for insertion in the shuttle of
multi-needle quilting machines and some types
of embroidery machines.
31. 8. Pre-wound Bobbin:
• Precision wound thread packages can replace
metal bobbin.
• Bobbin changing time reduced.
• Smoother unwinding.
• Improve efficiency and quality of production.
• A variety of thread type is available pre-wound.
• A variety of sizes to fit most lock stitch machines.
32. •These packages are self supporting and have no
metal, wood or paper support.
Fig: Pre-wound Bobbin
