Dirt separator with a web-carding plate
AssigneeHollingsworth GmbH
InventorWalter Loffler
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Abstract
The dirt separator for carding machines is located upstream of the doffer cylinder and comprises a knife blade (16) as well as a foot portion or base plate that is provided with a toothed wire clothing (19), which is arranged with a clearance of about 0.25 mm from the main drum of the carding machine. The knife blade (16) is preceeded by a gap (27), which is in fluid flow communication with a suction duct (24).
Claims5
An improved dirt separator, used with cards and combs of the type including a doffing cylinder and a main cylinder rotatable in a first rotational direction, the dirt separator of the type including a plate closely spaced apart a short radial distance from the main cylinder, a knife blade located to point against the direction of rotation of the main cylinder, at an adjustable distance from the latter, and at a peripheral distance behind the plate in the first rotational direction, a base face adjoining the knife blade in the first rotational direction, and an extraction chamber covering a gap between the plate and the knife blade, the improvement comprising:
- wherein the base face is covered with a sawtooth wire clothing;
- and means for mounting the dirt separator immediately in front of the doffing cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.