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US 5,355,560 AGranted
Controlled grinding of clothing
AssigneeMaschinenfabrik Rieter AG
InventorsPeter Fritzsche, Robert Demuth
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Abstract
A carding machine is provided with a built-in clothing grinding system which can move a grinding element from a waiting position over the processing width of a carding machine, with a control unit being provided for controlling the work of the grinding element.
Claims23
A textile machine comprising in combination:
- a processing element, said processing element having a working shape, said working shape having a predominant influence on at least one quality parameter of a product being produced on said machine;
- the working shape of said processing element deteriorating as an operating period of said machine increases, with product quality of said product being impaired accordingly;
- a built-in maintenance element, operatively associated with said processing element, said maintenance element improving the working shape of said processing element by treatment thereof in order to counteract the impairment of the quality of said product;
- said maintenance element being movable between a waiting position and an operating position;
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- a control unit, operatively interconnected with said maintenance element, said control unit controlling or initiating the movement of said maintenance element from said waiting position to said operating position and vice-versa.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.