To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc., as in the homonymous machine
A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating
(machine calender) (1) a configuration of heated rollers used for flattening one or both sides of synthetic screen printed fabrics; (2) to prepare sheets of material by pressure between two or more counter rotating rolls; (3) a set of cast iron rollers with highly polished surfaces situated at the dry end of a paper making machine
(wire cloth) - To pass wire cloth through a pair of rollers to reduce thickness or flatten intersections of wires and provide a smooth surface Also called rolled
A group or "stack" of rollers through which sheet material is passed, under controlled conditions of heat, pressure and/or time, in order to give the material thickness, coating or surface finish
Stack of horizontal cast iron or steel rolls at the end of a paper machine The paper is passed between the rolls to increase the smoothness and gloss of its surface
The paperboard to which some degree of smootheness and gloss has been imparted by passing it between a stack of heavy cast-iron rolls with chilled hardened surface This calendering process makes the paperboard more uniform in thickness
a machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets; "calender paper
A machine with three or more internally heated or cooled cylinders used to (1) continuously sheet out polymeric compound or fused PVC (2) to wipe polymeric compound into the interstices of a fabric leaving a small portion of it on the surface of the fabric, or (3) to lay a continuous sheet of compound on a fabric
a machine with two or more counter-rotating steel rollers used for laminating sheeting or skim coating (topping) to a controlled thickness or surface characteristic, or both
A machine equipped with two or more metal rolls revolving in opposite directions and used for continuously sheeting or plying up rubber and plastics compounds and for frictioning or coating materials with rubber and plastics compounds
A calender refers to the use of two rolls, or calenders, that squeeze paper in order to smooth the surface Often a sheet is run between a series of calenders that squeeze the sheet in several directions, smoothing the surface in every possible direction
a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance
calendered
Etymology
[ 'ka-l&n-d&r ] (transitive verb.) 1513. Middle French calandrer, from calandre machine for calendering, from Vulgar Latin colendra cylinder, modification of Greek kylindros; more at CYLINDER.