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Abstract
Measurements of the forces required to withdraw fibres from slivers inserted in combs of variable pin density are reported. In all cases, the withdrawal forces per fibre were well below the fibre breaking loads. Fibre breakage obtained in rectilinear combing is therefore ascribed to bad fibre alignment and fibre entanglement.