Automated spinning apparatus and process
AssigneeTNS Mills, Inc.
InventorKiyohiro Tsuzuki
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Abstract
A plant structure having three floors with first and second open-end spinning apparatuses located on the first floor and with vertical sliver feed tubes extending from the first and second open-end spinning apparatuses respectively to the second floor for feeding a sliver through the sliver feed tube to the first open-end spinning apparatus and to the third floor for feeding sliver from a can thereof to said second open-end spinning apparatus.
Claims8
In an open-end spinning apparatus having means to receive sliver for the spinning thereof into yarn, the improvement comprising:
- a sliver feed tube for feeding sliver to said open-end spinning apparatus, said sliver originating form a sliver source disposed two floors above said open-end spinning apparatus;
- and
- said sliver feed tube having a vertical portion, an obtuse portion forming an obtuse angle with said vertical portion at a lower end of said vertical portion, and a horizontal portion;
- such that said sliver travels downwardly through the vertical portion, then through said obtuse portion, and then through said horizontal portion.
A plant structure for the treatment of textile fibers to form such fibers as yarn, comprising:
- a building structure having first, second and third floors therein;
- at least first and second open-end spinning apparatuses located adjacent one another on said first floor;
- a first sliver feed tube on said second floor for directing sliver from a can located on said second floor to said first open-end spinning apparatus;
- a second sliver feed tube extending from said third floor to said second open-end spinning apparatus for directing sliver from a can located on said third floor to said second open-end spinning apparatus;
- and
- each said first and second sliver feed tubes having a vertical portion, an obtuse portion forming an obtuse angle with said vertical portion at a lower end of said vertical portion, and a horizontal portion;
- such that said sliver travels downwardly through said vertical portion, then through said obtuse portion, and then through said horizontal portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.