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US 4,044,427 AGranted
Comber roll
AssigneeRogers Corporation
InventorsAlbert M. Ankrom, John T. Vernon
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Abstract
A discardable comber roll is characterized by a plastic core which supports, in a spiral groove, a card clothing wire having a wear-resistant coating thereon. The comber roll core is molded, the card clothing wire is installed thereon and the roll is thereafter post cured and balanced by removal of material from the side face or faces of the plastic core.
Claims2
A comber roll comprising:
- a molded plastic core, said core having a spirally grooved cylindrical portion of constant diameter, said core further having an axial passage for receiving a rotary drive shaft and a pair of parallel end faces, said end faces being oriented transversely to the axis of said core cylindrical portion;
- a plurality of equally spaced notches in at least a first of said core end faces, said notches and the core segments therebetween defining vanes to establish air currents for directing debris away from said roll;
- a flat card clothing wire positioned on edge in said groove in said core cylindrical portion, said wire having regularly spaced teeth in its outwardly disposed edge;
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- a wear-resistant coating on at least the toothed portion of said wire, said coating including diamond particles.
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