Tentering Two Early's employees putting a stockful of blankets through the tenter, 2002 (copyright Mike French). A tenter is a heated drying machine with a device for holding the stretched stockful while it travels through the machine. The usual method consists of two endless chains on which steel pins are mounted. As the chain moves through the machine the cloth is fed onto the pins and it is held taut while being dried. The distance in width between the chains can be adjusted to allow for differing widths of blankets. The speed of the machine can also be adjusted to accommodate the different types of blankets being dried. This drying process with the stockful being held on pins also ensures that the cloth dries to the correct finished width. |
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