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US 4,493,131 AGranted
Control device for opening fiber bales
AssigneeFratelli Marzoli & C. S.p.A.
InventorsClaudio Dragagna, Claudio Locatelli
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AssigneeFratelli Marzoli & C. S.p.A.
InventorsClaudio Dragagna, Claudio Locatelli
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A machine for withdrawing or removing fibre staples from a set of bales of textile staples which can be displaced rectilinearly and alternately, with a carriage having a reciprocal vertical motion carrying rotary reels for removing said fibre staples from the bales is controlled by a device which comprises a plurality of detectors adapted previously to determine in the vertical sense sequential working zones for the carriage on the bales and an apparatus for automatically impressing a differential action of the carriage on the bales in relationship with the sequential preselected working areas. Thus the withdrawal of the fibre staples is obtained consistently with the compactness of the material contained in the bales without discrepancies in the production run and with a constant degree of bale-breaking.
A device for controlling a machine for removing fibre staples from a set of staple bales of textile material, wherein the machine is horizontally reciprocable along said bale set and comprises a carriage reciprocable in a vertical direction and having a rotary bale opening reel arrangement to strip from said bales fibre staples to be pneumatically conveyed to subsequent processing steps, and wherein the device comprises a plurality of detectors spaced from one another in a vertical direction according to superimposed zones of said bales having sufficient compactness, means for actuating said detectors in response to vertical movement of said carriage, and means controlled by said detectors to cause said carriage and rotary bale opening reel arrangement to exert on said bales pressures of different magnitudes according to said zones of different compactness.
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