Different Types of Fabric Cutting Machines Used in Apparel Manufacturing

In apparel industry the most important thing to notice is the cutting department. Making apparel is the cutting fabrics process which cut out the pattern pieces from specified fabric for making different design apparel with the help of marker.

Cutting fabrics is the most important part to design any apparel, but to give different design to apparels some different machine are used, either laser cutting fabrics machines or with blade cutting fabrics machines.

Lets talk about some of the different cutting machine for fabrics

• Manual Cutting Machine: 

All of us knows scissor as a manual cutting machine. Scissors are only used when cutting only single or double plies. Almost every type of fabric can be cut by scissor. But it takes huge time for cutting fabrics. That’s why it is useful in cutting fabric in bulk.

• Semi-Automatic Cutting Machine:

1. Straight Knife of Cutting Machine:

This type of machine is most popular and most versatile in entire world. This machine is available in all standard electrical configurations, along with the wide variety of sizes and speeds in blades.

Feature of Straight Knife Cutting Machine:

1. Suitable for mass trimming cotton, woolen, linen leather and chemical fiber goods, etc.
2. Neat cutting, small-curvature radius curvilinear cutting.
3. Low noise, stable running, easy to operate and high efficiency.
4. Incorporated with an auto knife-grinding device, easier to operate.

2. Round Knife Cutting Machine:

This machine is named as round knife cutting machine because its cutter is round but slightly octagonal in shape. The size of this machine is small, flexible & used for small production. It is also a popular in cutting.

Features of Round Knife Cutting Machine:

1. It has a round but little octagonal type knife that having sharp edges.
2. The other main parts of this machine are base plate, electric motor, handle & knife guard.
3. Knife diameter varies from 6-20 cm.
4. Manual grinder is used.
5. Motor r.p.m. is 800-1600.It depends on machine.
6. A handle for the cutter to direct the knife.

3. Band Knife Cutting Machine:

This Band knife cutting machine is an endless and looks like a loop. This Band knife machine can cut fabric rolls without cardboard-inner tube. It is important instrument of cutting fabrics. This band knife cutting machine works automatically according to the height of the relevant material.

3. Die Cutting Machine: 

This cutting machine is named as Die cutting machine which involves in pressing a rigid blade through the lay of fabric. When using small motifs with particular pattern shape are need for cutting, then this machine is very helpful. The main advantage of this machine is to cut sharp and small parts of fabrics.

4. Notcher Cutting Machine:

This Notcher Cutting Machine is a special type of cutting machine & use in special case. It is useful to cut small notch to the fabric.

It is most useful to make consistency in notching. This cannot be used in thermoplastic fibers or certain unlined garments.

5. Drill Cutting Machine:

Drill cutting machine is uses to mark on end of components especially for the pockets position. This machine is also used for marking on the middle of the components of dresses. It can make the hole permanently for a long.

• Fully Automatic / Computerized Cutting Machine:

1. Computer Controlled Knife Cutting Machine:

This knife cutting machine provides the most accurate cutting at very high speed. It is uses for large scale production. Marker is not necessary to put over the fabric lays during cutting. This technology of Computer Controlled Knife Cutting has the advantage of being highly accurate and fast.

Advantages of machine:

1. Gives Very fast fabric cutting;
2. Gives Very accurate cutting;
3. Cutting speed could be varied;
4. Cutting knife could be rotated and moved at any angle;
5. Suitable for large scale production;

2. Laser Cutting Machine:

Laser cutting machine cut the fabric by ray of light on a fine spot by the use of laser. The fabric laser cut with this machine is of very fine & gives amazing design to that designer laser cut apparel. The processing of Laser cutting depends on its precise processing, faster, simple operation, its high degree of automation has been used widely in the leather and apparel industry.

3. Rib Cutting Machine:

Ribs are the kind of knits fabric. An automatic rib cutting machine helps to get the roll of ribs. An operator needs to feed the cloth roll into the machine and specify the rib width. This rib cutting machine cut fabric with a specified width and wind up the fabric into a roll automatically.

4. Plasma Torch Cutting Machine:

Plazma cutting was originally developed to satisfy the demand for high quality cutting. By this cutting of stainless steel and aluminum is done. Textile material can also be cut by this rib machine. In this system, fabrics are cut by a thin through the nozzle which is made by Argon gas.