Abstract:
An improved web former for feeding a fiber web of dense material or the like to subsequent textile processing machinery. The web former disclosed incorporates an offset cam means comprising an eccentric sleeve concentrically rotatably journalled in a bearing assembly. The offset cam means oscillates a shaker plate between horizontal positions so that a web of uniform density and thickness may be compressed and moved downwardly through a chute defined by the shaker plate and a vertically extending wall to a plurality of fluted aluminum delivery rolls. The delivery rolls further assist in forming a web and transporting a web of fiber material to other textile equipment.
Abstract:
An improved web former for feeding a fiber web of uniform density and thickness to subsequent processing equipment. Also disclosed is the combination of the web former with various types of subsequent textile processing equipment, and a method of operating the web former alone, as well as in conjunction with the subsequent processing equipment. A feature in the construction and operation of the web former resides in the realization that a fiber web of improved density and thickness uniformity is obtainable if the air within the shaft in the former is removed or pressed out through perforations in one of the sides of the shaft while the shaker plate, which forms one side of the shaft, is oscillating.
Abstract:
Separating fibers from a conveying air stream which conducts said fibers through a stationary inlet into a separating apparatus. The apparatus contains a filter and the separated material is ejected into a container or the like. According to an important aspect of the invention, an axially displaceable plunger mechanism is operably connected with a drive arrangement, this plunger mechanism possessing an opening which communicates via a telescopic or flexible member, defining the aforementioned filter, with the stationary inlet means.
Abstract:
An apparatus for preparing cotton after it has been removed from a compressed bale and without the use of the picker, the picker lap, the lap handling, the creeling and other operations sometimes employed prior to delivery to the carding machine. In the present method the fiber is supplied in very small, open tufts carried by air into a rectangular flue which passes over or into a smaller round or polygonal shaped flue across a series of carding machines, where the fibers are loosely collected and fed through a bellows action mechanism which alternatively compresses and releases, removing a substantial portion of the air and allowing the fibers to fall by gravity into any spaces formerly occupied by air producing a uniform batt.