Method and apparatus for severing ties and wrappers of textile fiber bales
AssigneeTrutzschler GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAndreas Kranefeld, Josef Temburg, Abi Marom
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Abstract
An apparatus for severing ties or a wrapper surrounding a fiber bale includes a severing device having a cutting element and a drive for actuating the cutting element; a counterelement positioned adjacent the cutting device; a supporting device for positioning the fiber bale; and a displacing device for moving the severing device and the cutting device as a unit relative to the supporting device for causing the counterelement to penetrate into the fiber bale underneath the tie to countersupport the tie during severing of the tie by the severing device.
Claims16
A method of severing ties or a wrapper surrounding a fiber bale, comprising the following steps:
- (a) displacing the fiber bale and a severing device relative to one another for feeding the ties sequentially to the severing device;
- (b) slowly rotating a cutting wheel having a peripheral cutting edge and forming part of the severing device;
- (c) introducing a counterelement, having a cutting edge forming part of the severing device, into the fiber bale and moving the counterelement relative to the fiber bale such that the counterelement penetrates underneath a tie to be severed and surrounding the fiber bale;
- (d) causing the cutting wheel and the counterelement to assume an overlapping relationship;
- (e) supporting the tie from below by said counterelement;
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- (f) severing the tie by a cooperation between the cutting edge of the cutting wheel and the counterelement.
An apparatus for severing ties or a wrapper surrounding a fiber bale, comprising
- (a) a cutting device having
- (1) a rotary cutting wheel including a peripheral cutting edge;
- (2) drive means for driving said rotary cutting wheel;
- (3) a counterelement positioned adjacent said rotary cutting wheel in an overlapping relationship therewith;
- said counterelement having a cutting edge;
- said cutting edge of said rotary cutting wheel and said cutting edge of said counterelement cooperating with one another as shears for performing severing;
- (b) supporting means for positioning the fiber bale;
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- (c) moving means for displacing said cutting device as a unit relative to the supporting means for causing said counterelement to penetrate into the fiber bale underneath the tie to countersupport the tie during severing of the tie by the cutting device.
An apparatus for severing ties or a wrapper surrounding a fiber bale, comprising
- (a) a cutting device having
- (1) a rotary cutting wheel including a peripheral cutting edge;
- (2) drive means for driving said rotary cutting wheel;
- (3) a counterelement positioned adjacent said rotary cutting wheel in an overlapping relationship therewith;
- said cutting edge of said rotary cutting wheel and said counterelement cooperating with one another as shears for performing severing;
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- (4) a cutting blade affixed to said counterelement and cooperating with said cutting wheel;
- (b) supporting means for positioning the fiber bale;
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- (c) moving means for displacing said cutting device as a unit relative to the supporting means for causing said counterelement to penetrate into the fiber bale underneath the tie to countersupport the tie during severing of the tie by the cutting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.