Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by material processed]
7. textile working equipment
8. [textile fabricating tools and equipment]

Anotations

Scope note:

Mechanized devices consisting of a confined box chamber, which may be heated, cooled, or exposed to a steam injection, designed to crimp, fold, bulk, and bend the individual fibers of a tow, converted tow, sliver, or similar assemblage of filaments. To facilitate this method of texturing, these devices are attached to a series of either feed rollers or fluid jets onto which textile fibers are packed or compressed; these rollers then force the fibers into the stuffer box chamber where they are exposed temperature changes while being pressed into a zig-zag pattern. Though this device was originally created for crimping carpets, it was eventually adapted to the textile industry by Joseph Bancroft & Sons.