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US 4,364,152 AGranted
Web dividing device
AssigneeTrutzschler GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsRudolf Rauschen, Ludwig Schellen
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AssigneeTrutzschler GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsRudolf Rauschen, Ludwig Schellen
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A carding machine includes a vertical tuft feed chute, a supply table on which a fiber lap discharged by the feed chute is forwarded in a direction of advance, a carding unit arranged downstream of the supply table as viewed in the direction of advance and receiving the fiber lap from the supply table and discharging a fiber web divided into side-by-side arranged web parts and a plurality of sliver forming trumpets each receiving a separate one of the web parts. There is further provided a dividing device having a vertically oriented tuft divider supported in the feed chute. The tuft divider separates the feed chute into vertically extending feed chute parts situated side-by-side as viewed in the direction of lap advance, whereby the fiber lap discharged by the feed chute is divided into side-by-side positioned fiber lap parts.
In a carding machine including a vertical tuft feed chute, a supply table on which a fiber lap discharged by the feed chute is forwarded in a direction of advance, a carding unit arranged downstream of said supply table as viewed in the direction of advance and receiving said fiber lap from said supply table and discharging a fiber web divided into side-by-side arranged web parts and a plurality of sliver forming trumpets each receiving a separate one of said web parts, the improvement comprising a dividing device having a vertically oriented tuft divider supported in said feed chute, said tuft divider separating said feed chute into vertically extending feed chute parts situated side-by-side as viewed in said direction of advance, whereby said fiber lap discharged by said feed chute is divided into side-by-side positioned fiber lap parts.
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