Apparatus for stripping revolving card flats
AssigneeTrutzschler GmbH & Co. KG
InventorHermann Trutzschler
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Abstract
A carding machine has a main cylinder, revolving flats provided with clothing and moving along a circumferential portion of the main cylinder, a cleaning apparatus for cleaning the revolving flats and a suction device disposed underneath the apparatus for removing waste generated during operation of the cleaning apparatus. The cleaning apparatus comprises a flat stripping brush mounted for rotation adjacent the traveling path of the flats for cooperating with the clothing of the flats to remove waste therefrom, a brush cleaning roll mounted for rotation at a small distance from the flat stripping brush to continuously remove waste from the flat stripping brush and a waste collecting bin for catching waste thrown by the brush cleaning roll and for guiding the waste to the suction device.
Claims5
In a carding machine including a main cylinder, revolving flats provided with clothing and moving along a circumferential portion of the main cylinder, a cleaning apparatus for cleaning the revolving flats and a suction device disposed underneath said apparatus for removing waste generated during operation of the cleaning apparatus;
- the improvement in said cleaning apparatus comprising
- (a) a flat stripping brush mounted for rotation adjacent the traveling path of said flats for cooperating with the clothing of the flats to remove waste therefrom;
- said flat stripping brush having a brush assembly;
- (b) a brush cleaning roll mounted for rotation and having a brush assembly arranged at a small distance from the brush assembly of said flat stripping brush to continuously remove waste from said brush assembly of said flat stripping brush;
- (c) a waste collecting means for catching waste thrown by said brush cleaning roll and for guiding the waste to said suction device;
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- (d) a stripping edge forming a part of said waste collecting means and cooperating with the brush assembly of said brush cleaning roll.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.