Rotating cleaner for cotton and wool card in general

In a cleaning device for textile fibres comprising at least one carding drum and a taker-in cylinder or drum in tangential arrangement with a lower peripheral portion of said carding drum, said taker-in drum having cooperatively associated therewith means for feeding textile fibres thereto for subsequent delivery to said carding drum for further treatment thereof, the improvement which comprises:

• at least a pair of first and second cleaning cylinders located at a lower peripheral portion of said taker-in drum and tangential thereto, the first cleaning cylinder being tangentially associated with said second cylinder, said first
• cleaning cylinder being disposed downstream of said second cleaning cylinder relative to the direction of rotation of said taker-in drum,
• the rotation of said taker-in drum being such as to cause textile fibres fed thereto to pass around said drum and provide an outer layer thereof which is transferred to said first cleaning cylinder and from there to said second cleaning cylinder and then back to said taker-in drum for delivery to said carding drum,
• the speed of said first cylinder relative to said second cylinder and to said taker-in drum being such as to remove particles therefrom by centrifugal force while returning workable fibres to said taker-in drum for delivery to said carding drum for further treatment.