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English translation: wire placement/thread placement

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French term or phrase:placement de fils
English translation:wire placement/thread placement
Entered by: Andre Dumoulin

08:43 Apr 3, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) / textiles
French term or phrase: placement
Patent about industrial braiding. The word "placement" (de fils, de fibres) occurs multiple times and, as you can see from the first sentence, there is even a loom called a "métier à placement de fils". I get a suggestion from my Ernst dictionary that "setting" or "dropping" might be appropriate for "placement" in a textile context... but I find on Google that "thread setting"/"thread dropping" produces too much in too many other fields than textiles.

Le métier de l’étape d) peut être choisi parmi un métier à tisser, un métier à tresser, un métier à napper et un métier à placement de fils.

La Structure Primaire peut être réalisée selon une technique choisie parmi le tissage, le tressage, le nappage et le placement de Fils. Elle peut être une texture multicouche, multidimentionnelle ou multidirectionnelle, dont les Fils qui en sont issus servent à réaliser la partie tubulaire qui est alors multicouche.

L’ensemble du principe d’invention peut être appliqué aux autres techniques qui mettent en œuvre des Fils continus telles que le placement de fibres, le nappage de fibres ou le tissage de fibres.
Mpoma
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:51
wire placement/thread placement
Explanation:
It's straightforward, and frequently used.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-04-03 11:54:02 GMT)
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"Wire placement" appears 62,000 times and "thread placement" 49,000 times on google.

Since "métier" is here a machine, I would use "wire placement device" ou "thread placement device" for the phrase.
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Andre Dumoulin
Panama
Local time: 11:51
Grading comment
yes, I agree, very common phrase. Thanks very much
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Summary of answers provided
3(thread) set-up
Pascale van Kempen-Herlant
3wire placement/thread placement
Andre Dumoulin


  

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(thread) set-up


Explanation:
I found this expression in a number of sites

Pascale van Kempen-Herlant
Local time: 18:51
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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placement de fils
wire placement/thread placement


Explanation:
It's straightforward, and frequently used.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-04-03 11:54:02 GMT)
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"Wire placement" appears 62,000 times and "thread placement" 49,000 times on google.

Since "métier" is here a machine, I would use "wire placement device" ou "thread placement device" for the phrase.


    https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.0/publication-dates/20111102/patents/EP2015826NWB1/document.pdf
Andre Dumoulin
Panama
Local time: 11:51
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
yes, I agree, very common phrase. Thanks very much
Notes to answerer
Asker: thanks... but in fact I had found that site by googling and there are two points 1) that is about "guide-wire" placement and 2) one use in one patent title is not sufficient, because you never know who put it there. You say that it is "frequently used"... do you think you might give more proof of that?

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