Brush body feeding device
AssigneeG.B. Boucherie N.V.
InventorLeonel Polydore Boucherie
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Abstract
A brush body feeding device for feeding individualized brush bodies from a collective supply (18) to a tufting station in a brush making machine comprises a discharging device (10) for successively discharging individual brush bodies from the collective supply (18). A delivering device (14) delivers brush bodies to the tufting station in a continuous stream of aligned brush bodies. A storage conveyor (36) is arranged between the discharging device (10) and the delivering device (14) perfoms a buffering function to compensate for any inconsistent operation of the discharging device (10).
Claims18
A brush body feeding device for feeding individualized brush bodies from a collective supply to a tufting station in a brush making machine, comprising a discharging device for successively discharging individual brush bodies from said collective supply, a delivering device for delivering brush bodies to said tufting station, and a storage conveyor arranged between said discharging device and said delivering device and having a plurality of accommodations for a single brush body each, said storage conveyor being controllable to present any of said accommodations to said discharging device for receiving a single brush body therein, and to present any of said accommodations to said delivering device for transferring a single brush body from said accommodation to said delivering device, said delivering device comprising alignment means for aligning individualized brush bodies in a continuous stream of aligned brush bodies.
A brush body feeding device for feeding individualized brush bodies from a collective supply to a tufting station in a brush making machine, comprising a discharging device for successively discharging individual brush bodies from said collective supply, a delivering device for delivering brush bodies to said tufting station, and a storage conveyor arranged between said discharging device and said delivering device and having a plurality of accommodations for a single brush body each, said storage conveyor being controllable to present any of said accommodations to said discharging device for receiving a single brush body therein, and to present any of said accommodations to said delivering device for transferring a single brush body from said accommodation to said delivering device, wherein said delivering device is associated with an orientation correction device which produces a stream of continuous consistently aligned and mutually spaced brush bodies.
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