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AssigneeHergeth Hollingsworth GmbH
InventorsAkiva Pinto, Guenter Lucassen, Heinz Dirkes
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A process and apparatus is disclosed for cleaning and opening loose fiber material which is fed through a feeder to a cleaning operation to be carried away for further processing. The degree of contamination of the fiber material is concurrently scanned. Control of the cleaning procedure is performed in response to the scanned measuring results. A measuring path is provided between a fiber feeder (2) and an opening and cleaning unit (3). At the measuring path (24), there is arranged a device (300) for scanning the degree of contamination of the fiber material. A controller (41) controls cleaning unit (3) and/or take-off rolls (8, 9) of feeder (2). The control of the cleaning procedure is relatively instantaneous in accordance wit the result of a proceeding measurement of the degree of contamination of the fiber material.
A process for cleaning and opening loose fiber material of the type which includes feeding said fiber material through a feeder to a cleaning operation, and conveying said fiber material away from said cleaning operation for further fiber material processing, wherein said process comprises continuously scanning the degree of contamination of said fiber material, while said fiber material is fed to the cleaning operation, generating a signal representing a measured degree of contamination of said scanned fiber material, and controlling said cleaning operation in response to said signal representing said measured degree of contamination.
In an apparatus for cleaning and opening loose textile fiber material, the combination comprising a fiber feeder having take-off rolls, opening and cleaning means having intake means for receiving fibers from said fiber feeder, and means for discharging the fiber material from said opening and cleaning means, a measuring channel disposed between said fiber feeder and said opening and cleaning means through which fibers are fed from said fiber feeder to said opening and cleaning means;
Apparatus for cleaning and opening loose textile fibers of the type which includes a chute feeder having fiber take-off rolls, fiber opening and cleaning means having the fiber intake means, and a means for discharging the fiber material from said opening and cleaning means wherein the improvement comprises a measuring channel disposed between said take-off means of said chute feeder and said intake means of said opening and cleaning means, scanning means for measuring contamination in said fiber material passing through said measuring channel, and control means for controlling the delivery of fiber material of through said opening and cleaning means in response to said measured contamination.
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