Malimo

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On the one hand, Malimo refers to a textile finished product that was manufactured using the stitchbonding process invented by Heinrich Mauersberger from Limbach-Oberfrohna , and on the other hand, the stitchbonding process itself, in which three thread systems are used. It was and is also a brand and company name.

The Limbach-Oberfrohna Industrial Museum Association (Heimatverein Limbach-Oberfrohna e.V.) has found out about the name:

Originally the designation was »chain stitching« or »chain stitching machines«.

For better international marketing, abbreviations for the name of the inventor Mauersberger and Limbach-Oberfrohna (the inventor's place of residence in the district of Zwickau ) plus the short form of the type of fabric to be produced have been created using the formula " Mali- " , ie "Malimo" for Molton , " Maliwatt " for quilted wadding, »Malipol« for processing pile threads.

In addition to the textile, the protected term also refers to the stitch-bonding process itself ( Malimo process ) patented by Mauersberger in 1949 and the special machines required for this ( Malimo machines ). GDR Patent No. 8194, filing date: February 3, 1949; U.S. Patent # 2,890,579, June 16, 1959.

Procedure

The Mali mover driving joins next to the Web - active - Walk - lace - and needlepoint process as a separate process for the production of a textile fabric of individual threads. Although it as sewing more is referred to proceed, it has nothing to do with the conventional hosiery manufacture, although the Malimotextil may also be elastic as hosiery product through the use of elastic fibers.

The Malimo method is also familiar with the systematic distinction, familiar from weaving, between static threads ( warp threads ) and dynamic threads, which only create the texture through the fixation of the static threads. Unlike, however, this fixation does not take place during weaving of the static yarns by means of a weft thread , the warp threads by the orthogonal shot to the running direction through it, but by About quilting (via sewing ) of the warp threads (mostly) orthogonal to the running direction. This type of fixation has the advantage that - unlike in weaving, where only one shot after the other can be shot - several (almost any number) needles can be stitched over the warp at the same time and Malimo can therefore be produced considerably faster than woven fabrics. Furthermore, almost any fiber can be combined with one another, so that there is a wide range of possible applications and possible effects.

Not only threads can serve as warp material, but also felt or nonwovens , which gain considerable tear resistance through quilting in the Malimo process without losing any of their other textile properties.

Seven different Malimo processes based on 400 patents had been created by 1989:

History and use

Warp preparation in VEB Malitex (1976), a preliminary stage for the manufacture of Malimo fabric

The GDR expanded the process and the associated mechanical engineering with targeted investments into its own branch of industry and marketed the products and licenses under the name "Malimo" at great expense. The large-scale application began in 1964 in the VEB Malitex Hohenstein-Ernstthal . In the mid-1980s, around 100 textile companies in the GDR produced Malimo.

In the GDR, it was initially set on replacing large areas of woven and knitted goods with Malimo and, for example, also producing outerwear from Malimo. However, this only caught on to a limited extent. The use of Malimo as a utility textile (e.g. for work clothing, bandages, tea towels, dust rags, tiles, etc.), on the other hand, was extremely successful. Even today it is used more and more in this area because of the time savings in production, especially in the USA. In contrast, malimo goods are rarely found on the German market. Today, the technology is increasingly used for the production of special textiles for plastic reinforcement from materials such as glass fiber and carbon fiber .

Typical Malimo products as consumer goods and for industry (especially the construction, leather and shoe industries): carpets, floor coverings, curtains, furniture fabrics, wallpaper, bed sheets, tablecloths, towels, dishcloths, dusters and polishing cloths, diapers, baby linen, hats , Hats, slippers, protective work clothing, swimsuits and bathrobes, fabrics for coating and lamination for artificial leather, table coverings, mattress covers, roller blinds, floor coverings, roofing felt, sealing and insulating material, linings, upholstery materials, flexible transport containers, PVC-coated conveyor belts, tarpaulins, car tarpaulins, Packaging materials, air domes, geotextiles such as B. Green mats (textile floors with grass seeds). The Fiat factories used Malimo for the interiors of cars, in the USA Malimo was used on airfields.

literature

  • Dieter Bock: 50 years ago. Patent application by the engineer Mauersberger for the stitchbonding technique MALIMO - Heinrich Mauersberger in commemoration (1909–1982). In: Sächsische Heimatblätter. Issue 1, 1999, pp. 48-53.
  • Heinrich Mauersberger, Heinz Kemter: New Textile Technologies MALIMO. Berlin 1961.
  • Heinz Kemter: Malimo, Maliwatt, Malipol. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1961.
  • Siegfried Ploch: Malimo stitchbonding technology. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1978.
  • Jörg Roesler: Mauersberger's Malimo - Legends and facts about an original GDR innovation. (= Booklets on GDR history. 48). Berlin 1997.
  • Simone Tippach-Schneider: Malimo. In: The large lexicon of GDR advertising. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-539-2 , p. 193.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimatverein Limbach-Oberfrohna e. V., Förderverein Industriemuseum Limbach-Oberfrohna: "Mitteilungen" No. 6 / May 2009, p. 3, with reference to Obering. Walter Bräuer (on behalf of the Museum for German History, Berlin, and the Städtische Museen, Karl-Marx-Stadt): Malimo , 1979.
  2. ^ Heinz Kemter: Malimo, Maliwatt, Malipol. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1961, pp. 14/15.
  3. ^ Ines Wünsch: Lexicon knitting and knitting. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-87150-909-4 , p. 136.
  4. ^ Mauersberger honor in the Esche Museum. ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 1.08 MB). In: Announcements of the Förderverein Industriemuseum Limbach-Oberfrohna eV No. 6, May 2009, p. 3. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tu-chemnitz.de
  5. ↑ New Germany . February 3, 1984, p. 3 and April 15, 1989, p. 9.
  6. ↑ New Germany. February 3, 1984, p. 3.
  7. ↑ New Germany. January 28, 1989, p. 9.