Rolling Rack: (fig1) The rolling rack, like all rolling machines, as implied, rolls down the length of the table with the roll of fabric mounted on it. Like all rolling machines, the wheels on the control side of the machine are grooved steel wheels and sit on a rail mounted on the edge of the table, facilitating the controlled path of the machine in a straight line down the table. The Rolling rack has no tension control, so in addition to smoothing out wrinkles and aligning the control selvedge during spreading, the spreader must carefully unroll the fabric slightly ahead of the speed that the machine is advanced. Uneven spread tension is often the result.()
FIG 1 Rolling Rack Manual Spreader for wovens
FIG 2 Rolling Rack Manual Spreader for Knits and wovens
Turntable (nicknamed “Woolen Turntable”). The Turntable spreader (fig 3) is another manually operated machine. Like the Rolling rack, the Turntable is manually pushed down the table, and has the same tension challenges as the rolling rack. However, as the roll of fabric is mounted on a rack that can easily be rotated, in addition to the two methods of spread that the Rolling rack is designed for, the Turntable is ideal for face to face, Nap one way, face up or down , nap up or down spreading. For these methods, the spreader would cut the fabric off at the end, then release the lock and spin the turntable 180 degrees to reverse the face of the fabric.
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