Roll cleaning apparatus
AssigneeHanes Corporation
InventorDonald A. Sloan
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Abstract
A hand held lightweight apparatus for cleaning lint and fiber waste from the clearer rolls of spinning frames without removing such rolls from the spinning frame includes a driven, monofilament nylon flail which revolves at high speed within a suction head coupled to a vacuum producing apparatus. The nylon cord extends through an opening of the suction head upon each revolution of the driven flail device and the whipping action tears the accumulated lint and waste from the clearer rolls, while sightly roughening the roll surfaces, and the waste is directed to a collection point.
Claims10
A lightweight cleaning device for continuous spinning frames and the like textile machines having at least one pair of drawing rolls and a waste clearer roll rotating in engagement with one of said pair of drawing rolls, comprising, a drive motor, a flail device driven by said motor, housing means substantially encompassing said flail device and releasably supporting said drive motor exteriorly thereof, said housing means defining an inlet opening and a tubular portion forming a handle for support of the device in the hand of an operator, said flail device including at least one flexible cord periodically passing through said inlet opening and outwardly of said housing means to contact the annular surfaces of the rotating clearer roll and effectively tear accumulated lint and waste from the clearer roll as said device is displaced longitudinally of the clearer roll, and means creating a suction air flow through said housing means including said tubular handle portion for directing waste torn from the rotating clearer roll by said flail device through said inlet opening and handle portion into a collection receptacle.
A portable, lightweight device for support in the hand of an operator for releasing lint and waste fibers wrapped around clearer rolls rotating upon a textile spinning frame by displacing the device axially of the rotating clearer rolls to tear accumulated lint and fibers from the surfaces of clearer rolls comprising, housing means including a hollow portion defining an inlet opening therein, motor means, a flail device including a flexible cord secured within said housing and driven by said motor means, means releasably mounting said motor means and said flail device upon said housing means hollow portion with said motor means being positioned exteriorly of said housing means, the outer end of said cord periodically passing through said inlet opening and outwardly of said housing means, upon rotation of said motor means, for contacting rotating clearer rolls to effectively tear lint and fibers deposited upon the clearer rolls from the clearer rolls, said housing means further defining a support handle portion for directing dislodged waste material there through to a receptacle in response to an airflow therethrough from said inlet opening created by an airflow creating means.
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