ABSTRACTS OF TECHNICAL ARTICLES 401 



Drying of Textiles}^ A. C. Walker. In 1937 a textile-drying research 

 project was initiated by the United States Institute for Textile Research and 

 supported by the textile industry, for the purpose of evaluating the effects 

 of temperature and humidity on the physical and chemical properties of 

 important textile fibers. The present paper gives a comprehensive report 

 of the results obtained and points out the basis upon which the industry 

 must proceed in problems relating to textile drying. In all cases, consider- 

 ation should be given to the theories relating to the form in which the 

 moisture is distributed within the fiber structure and to data of the type 

 discussed by the author. 



'^ Trans. A.S.M.E., May 1943. 



