Pre-opening device for a carding machine
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
InventorsTakuzo Tooka, Choji Nozaki, Junzo Hasegawa, Susumu Kawabata, Hiroshi Niimi, Yoshiaki Yamaoka, Hiroaki Goto, Yasuhiro Miura
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Abstract
In the present invention, a plurality of fixed flats are disposed in juxtaposition to one another, and an opening 5 to 33 mm wide is formed between each pair of adjoining fixed flats, in such a manner that the dust is entrained in the discharge air current produced at the upstream side of the opening and extracted out of the opened fiber mass.
Claims9
Pre-opening device for a carding machine, wherein the fibers opened by and delivered from a taker-in roll are gripped and conveyed by the wire wound around the peripheral wall of a rotating cylinder so as to be opened through cooperation between the cylinder and a rotating flat, said pre-opening device including a plurality of fixed flats, each having a wire on the inner wall thereof, placed in tandem in opposition to and along the peripheral wall of the cylinder intermediate the taker-in roll and the rotating flat, characterized in that an opening 5 to 33 mm long circumferentially is provided between respectively adjacent ones of the fixed flats.
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