Apparatus and process for disintegrating a fiber agglomerate
AssigneeDidier-Werke AG
InventorsRudiger Buschmann, Karl Baum
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Abstract
An apparatus for disintegrating a fiber agglomerate has a feed tank for receiving and holding a batch of a fiber agglomerate. A turbulence chamber is connected to the feed tank for receiving a subquantity of the batch of fiber agglomerate and disintegrating the fiber agglomerate into separate fibers with air turbulence. A screening chamber is connected to the turbulence chamber for receiving the subquantity of the batch of fiber agglomerate and screening out separate fibers from shot particles and remaining fibers. The residual fibers and shot particles are fed back to the feed tank for reprocessing to obtain the maximum output of cleaned, separated fibers.
Claims18
A process for disintegrating a fiber agglomerate, comprising the steps of:
- providing a feed tank for holding a batch of fiber agglomerate to be disintegrated, a turbulence chamber connected to said feed tank, and a screening chamber connected to said turbulence chamber;
- loading a batch of dry fiber agglomerate into said feed tank;
- feeding the fiber agglomerate from said feed tank to said turbulence chamber;
- applying a stream of compressed air to said turbulence chamber to cause turbulence therein and disintegrating the fiber agglomerate into separate fibers with the turbulent air;
- delivering all of the separated fiber agglomerate to said screening chamber;
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- screening out the separated fibers from shot particles contained in the fiber agglomerate in said screening chamber.
An apparatus for disintegrating a fiber agglomerate, comprising:
- a feed tank for receiving and holding a batch of a fiber agglomerate;
- a conveyor having one end connected to said feed tank for feeding fiber agglomerate therefrom;
- a turbulence means for receiving a subquantity of the batch of fiber agglomerate from said feed tank and disintegrating the subquantity of the batch of fiber agglomerate into separate fibers with air turbulence, said turbulence means comprising a chamber connected to the other end of said conveyor having compressed air fed into said chamber, a first valve between said chamber and said other end of said conveyor and a second valve downstream of said chamber;
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- a screening means connected to said turbulence means downstream of said second valve for receiving the subquantity of the batch of fiber agglomerate from said turbulence means and screening out the separate fibers from shot particles and remaining fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.