Abstract:

This article investigates the measuring of the air permeability of textiles. A new instrument designed to measure the air permeability of textiles is described in the article. The instrument differs from the standard devices mainly due to the components added, which enable the dynamic measurement of  air permeability and give the possibility to investigate the structure of the textile tested during the process of measurement. Individual user settings are described and examples are given of how to process the data obtained. The device is operated by a control program. Contrary to the manual devices, the error introduced by the operating personnel is minimised in terms of setting up the measurement and reading the data measured. The device is controlled by a computer and the data obtained is stored in an electronic form for further processing.