Abstract:
An aerodynamic forming hood is provided for supplying a substantially uniform distribution of fibers in a downward laminar airstream for the deposition of the fibers on one or more forming surfaces. The hood is formed by a rectangular housing having opposed elongated downwardly diverging side walls and short downwardly diverging end walls. The housing has a smaller rectangular open top end through which a supply of fibers is released in an airstream which enters into the housing. The forming surfaces are disposed at a larger bottom forming end of the housing. The side walls and end walls in the top part of the hood are provided with elongated horizontal apertures. Controllable suction boxes are connected to the apertures for the controlled evacuation of air and fibers through the slots to substantially eliminate the formation of air turbulence and hence boundary layer separation in the airstream inside the housing to obtain the said laminar airstream with a substantially uniform distribution of fibers therein.
Abstract:
An apparatus for making a nonwoven web comprises a carding drum and a continuously movable, air-permeable collecting surface member, which is arranged to collect the fibers which have been discharged from the carding drum and are entrained by an entraining air stream, through a suction duct, which extends between the carding drum and the collecting surface member. Passages for supplying air to the suction duct are provided throughout a predetermined working width of the drum and disposed adjacent to the duct at leading and trailing boundaries thereof with respect to the direction of rotation of the carding drum. To improve the uniform separation of fibers from the carding drum, it is proposed to arrange worker roller to cooperate with the carding drum adjacent to the leading boundary of the duct, and an air supply passage for supplying a stream of air to be sucked through the throat of the gap between the carding drum and the worker roller is provided between the worker roller and the carding drum and terminates on that side of the worker roller which is remote from the suction duct.
Abstract:
Significantly improved carding production capacity and materially lowered waste content in the resulting sliver is obtained by high-speed operation of the lickerin at a speed in the range of about 1400 to 2000 r.p.m. and related operation of the main cylinder at a speed such that the lickerin surface speed is in the order of 90% of the cylinder surface speed, with a stripper bar lickerin screen located specially below the lickerin.
Abstract:
Methods and systems of forming a random fiber web using pneumatic fiber feeding system are disclosed. The method can optionally comprise: providing a plurality of moveable apparatuses including a lickerin and a feeder, the lickerin configured to remove a plurality of fibers from a fibrous mat delivered to adjacent the lickerin by the feeder; doffing the plurality of fibers from the lickerin at a doffing location within the system; communicating an air supply to entrain the plurality of fibers with the air supply after the doffing; and collecting the plurality of fibers from the air supply to form the random fiber web.
Abstract:
A carding machine for treating a fibrous feedstock and having an adjustable cleaning device arranged at any position on the machine where removal of waste from the feedstock is required while undergoing treatment, and a machine management device for monitoring the waste removal by the cleaning device and for providing a compensatory feedback adjustment of the cleaning device when the monitored waste deviates from a desired state, in which the monitoring of the waste removed can comprise a weighing device, an optical device, or a filter device which acts on a stream of air-borne waste.
Abstract:
An apparatus for treating fiber and producing a fiber lap therefrom, includes a fiber feeder; a carding machine including a multi-roll licker-in assembly receiving the fiber material from the feeder, a main carding cylinder receiving fiber material from the licker-in assembly, a plurality of carding flats supported about a circumferential portion of the main carding cylinder and cooperating therewith, and a doffer receiving fiber material from the main carding cylinder; and a fiber lap forming device including a pneumatic fiber stripping device which has a blower for directing an airstream generally tangentially to the doffer for removing and entraining fiber material from the doffer, a hood having an inner face defining a chamber situated above and downstream of said doffer for receiving fiber material carried from the doffer by the airstream, a continuously driven, air-pervious receiving member having an upper face and an underside, and a suction device facing the underside of the receiving member for generating an airstream passing through the receiving member in a direction from the upper face to the underside for drawing fiber material in the chamber onto the upper face of the receiving member for forming a fiber lap thereon.
Abstract:
An apparatus for feeding a fiber batt to a fiber processing machine includes a rotatably supported feed roll; a feed table having a face portion cooperating with the feed roll and defining therewith a nip through which the fiber batt passes in an advancing direction; an arrangement rendering at least one part of a feed table surface wear resistant which directly contacts the fiber batt upon passage thereof; a movably supported elongated holding element extending spaced from, and generally parallel to the feed roll; and a plurality of sensor elements each being affixed to the holding element and each being arranged to undergo excursions as a function of thickness variations of the fiber batt passing through the nip. The sensor elements impart a displacing force on the holding element which moves to an extent representing a sum of the displacing forces. A sensor arrangement is connected to the holding element for generating a signal as a function of displacements of the holding element.