Mesdan Fabrics Testing Instruments

Standardized Accurate Tumble Dryer. Recommended to dry samples just washed with Wascator performing home laundering test methods. 

Instrument suitable for checking the static electricity on garment fabrics, protective fabrics, fabrics for shoes and leather. 

Automatic Elmendorf - Digital Tear Tester

Suitable for all kinds of apparel, technical and protective fabrics, as well as for paper, cardboard, natural and artificial leather.Model with a high laceration capacity, ranging from 1600 to 30.000 g. Pendulum complete with additional check weights, supplied as standard with the instrument. Instrument equipped with alphanumeric keyboard and digital reader for the measurement of the laceration values that can be printed or transferred to a PC through a RS 232 serial port. Instrument fully protected and complying with the strictest EC safety norms.

Pneumatic bursting strength tester to determine the bursting resistance and the dynamic fatigue of woven and knitted fabrics as well as technical textiles, non-wovens, leather (artificial and natural), and of other non-textile applications (like paper, plastic, packagings, medical, etc.). The instrument is characterised by its refined design and guarantees an absolute reliability from both functional and security point of view thanks to its special “Perspex” bell-shells.

Crock Meter Instrument to determine colour fastness to rubbing, fitted with a digital reading counter. The instrument is supplied complete with a rubbing dowel with 1,6 cm diameter, a dowel with 1,9x2,54 cm dimensions, no. 2 interchangeable weights 9 N and 22 N and one set of crocking clothes.

Optional:

• No. 500 pieces of cotton crocking cloth Code 198.422
• Grey scale Code 267A

Electric Crock-Meter 198B Electric Crock-Meter model to determine color fastness to rubbing, fitted with a digital counter. The Crock Meter is supplied complete with a rubbing dowel with 1,6 cm diameter, a dowel with 1,9x2,54 cm dimensions, no. 2 interchangeable weights 9 N and 22 N and one set of crocking clothes.

SEMI-AUTOMATIC TENSILE STRENGTH TESTER

Tenso-Lab 4 is the latest generation of the well-known Tenso-Lab semi-automatic tensile tester. The new model is distinguished by:

 

New hardware: high sensibility and robustness (can be used to test both fibres and high tenacity fabrics), direct-drive ball bearing screw, low speed operation available, extended capacity to 5000 N.

 

New components: improved load cells performances (higher accuracy level and new capacity load cell added), quick load cell & clamps/jaws exchange.

 

New open software: more intuitive and easy to operate, SQL database and standard Ethernet machine connection to data export, no restriction on testing routines (can be created by the enduser, no special skills needed).

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A Instrument for the control of wear and piling on all types of fabrics. Model with 9 positions with display LCD touch screen equipped with single and total rotation counter. Supplied with 2 sets of weights of 9 and 12 Packet. 3 type test: wear, pilling, linear.

Air Tronic Plus is a fast and silent electronic instrument to determine the air permeability (meant as speed of the air flow verticallypassing through the sample under preset and known testing conditions) of woven, knitted and non-woven fabrics, industrial fabricsfor technical use, artificial leather, felt, velvet and paper. It can calculate also the average pore size of woven fabrics, a unique featureimportant for the filtration industry, their evaluation and classification.

For the control of abrasion and pilling on almost any kind of woven and knitted fabrics, non-wovens, socks, gloves, natural and artificial leather, both dry and wet samples. Extremely versatile, accurate, silent, vibration free, 100% made in Italy. Supplied with a kit of top quality consumables complete with traceable certificate. 

Crease Recovery Tester To determine recovery characteristics of fabrics undergoing a preset pressure for a determined period of time.