Plate singeing: 

In this type of singeing machine, the cloth passes over and in contact with one or two heated curved copper plates. The thickness of the plates ranges from 1 to 2 inches. The heating of the plates is done by a suitable burning arrangement of gas mixed with air. The plates are heated to bright red and the cloth passes over and in contact with these plates at a speed ranging from 150 to 250 yards per minute, the protruding fibres are burnt during the passage. Due to contact between the cloth and a hard and hot surface of metal a certain amount of luster in the cloth is produced.

This types of singeing has some drawbacks as given below:

• The fibres end present in the interstices of warp and weft are not singed, since they are not made accessible. 
• As the maintenance of uniform temperature is difficult in the plates, uneven singeing may result.

This singeing process can be explained with the following figure:

Gas singeing machine: 
In this type of singeing machine, the fabric passes over a burning gas flame at such a speed that only the protruding fibres burn and the main body of the fabric is not damaged by the flame. This is the most common type of machine used for singeing fabrics as well yarns.

The line diagram is given below of gas singeing process: