Abstract:
A carding machine has a toothed takerin (4a) for taking fibre to be carded from a feed arrangement (3a) to a main carding cylinder (5a). The fibre is conveyed on the lower arc of the takerin, and a substantially rigid, flat plate (10) lies below the lower arc of the takerin. The plate extends across the full width of the takerin and terminates in a free edge facing into the direction of roation of the takerin and substantially parallel to the takerin axis. The free edge is spaced from the tips of the teeth on the takerin by a distance of not more than 5 mm, and the plate lies in a plane that makes an angle of from 75.degree. to 120.degree. to that radial plane of the takerin that intersects the free edge of the plate.
Abstract:
An improved cleaner-opener-comber device for cleaning, opening and combing a fibrous web in a combing machine. The device includes a first and second taker-in mounted on the machine for rotation in a first direction and separated by a separation member. A larger diameter cylindrical drum is cooperatively disposed with respect to the first and second taker-ins for rotation in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the first and second takers-in. A plurality of plates having prongs slanted in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the cylindrical drum are selectively adjustably mounted proximate the cylindrical drum and allows the fibrous web to pass between the plates and the cylindrical drum for enhanced cleaning, opening and combing of the fibrous web.
Abstract:
The converging space between the moving-in or inbound surface of a loosening roll and the surface of a feed roll contains a suction duct, which is brought into close vicinity of the fibre loosening zone located between the two rolls, and which is used for sucking off of dust released in this zone. The suction duct is supported by the body forming the fibre feeder trough. Detrimental deposits of impurities in the subsequent processes, e.g. in the open-end spinning rotors, thus are greatly reduced.
Abstract:
A machine for spinning textile fibers comprises a carding drum with a toothed surface which generates a cylinder during rotation, a mechanism for feeding a roving or sliver of the textile fibers to the carding drum for disintegration thereon and a spinning station arranged to receive the disintegrated fibers from the carding drum and for spinning them. The feeding mechanism comprises a pair of nip rollers in surface contact, each nip roller having an elastic surface layer, a smooth-surfaced large diameter feed roller close to the nip rollers and spaced as closely as possible from the cylinder defined by the toothed surface of the carding drum, the smooth roller surface and the cylinder defining a triangular space therebetween, and a small diameter feed roller in the triangular space and in contact with the smooth surface, the smaller diameter roller having an elastic surface layer and preceding the larger diameter roller in the direction of rotation of the carding drum. A guard is closely spaced from the large diameter feed roller and extends arcuately therefrom in the direction of rotation around part of the cylinder. The guard is spaced from the cylinder as closely as possible and the roving or sliver is disintegrated between the toothed surface of the carding drum and the guard.