Tara Hank Making Machine
S.S. Roychoudhury

The TARA hank making machine, conceptualised, designed and fabricated by TARA, is a simple device which can help save yarn “upto the last piece” and make it (yarn) fit for re-use either for dyeing or for direct pre-weaving activities as raw yarn.

The leftover yarn in wrappers bobbin or weavers pirns is generally left un-used and wasted since it is not available in hank form.  The TARA machine facilitates the extraction of yarn from either pirns or bobbins and converts it into hank.  This machine can also be used to make hank from cone by attaching a belt driven pulley and a shaft to the main rotating disc, which is operated by hand lever.

The mechanism is very simple.  Using a combination of rotary and reciprocating motion, the drum is made to rotate at any speed by the hand operated lever.  The drive is transmitted through a reciprocating arm to the pirn. The rotating drum thus starts winding the yarn from the pirn/bobbin/cone.

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