System and method for producing a bleached cotton, nonwoven web

A continuous fiber processing system for producing clean, blended cotton fibers comprising:

• fiber preparation means which act to receive opened cotton fibers and to prepare these fibers for further processing;
• delivery and routing means which act to selectively deliver cotton fibers to further cleaning stations in fiber form;
• said further cleaning stations including a primary cleaning station which acts to clean and blend cotton fibers received from said delivery and routing means;
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• said further cleaning stations also including a fine cleaning station having a plurality of carding machines, fiber feed means and fiber removal means, said feed means being adapted to deliver fibers in fiber form to said carding means and said removal means being adapted to withdraw fibers in fiber form from said carding machines for delivery to further fiber processing means.

A continuous fiber processing system for producing clean and blended cotton fibers including:

• a fine cleaning station having a plurality of carding machines each provided with a shoot feed and arranged side by side;
• feeding means comprising an in-feed for delivering cotton fibers to each of said shoot feeds, said in feed including a fiber circulating system;
• out feed means for withdrawing carded fibers in fiber form from each of said carding means;
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• means connected with further processing means receiving said carded fibers from said out feed means.

A continuous fiber processing system for producing clean and blended cotton fibers including:

• a primary cleaning station for receiving separated cotton fibers, said primary cleaning station including a plurality of inclined cleaning devices for individually condensing and cleaning said fibers;
• a fine cleaning station which acts to further clean said fibers of particles and micro dust to align said fibers and to further blend said fibers;
• a web forming station which receives said fine cleaned fibers and forms a fiber web;
• a take-off operative to form said fiber web into a roll;
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• a feeding system comprising means for delivering said cotton fibers in fiber form to said primary cleaning station, to said fine cleaning station and in fiber form to said web forming station.