Device for supplying fibres to a filling instrument in a brush manufacturing machine
AssigneeFirma G.B. Boucherie, naamloze vennoostchap
InventorLeonel Polydore Boucherie
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Abstract
A device for supplying fibers to a filling instrument of a brush manufacturing machine which contains a fiber cartridge with at least two fiber supply ducts. The device is provided with a drawer with loading spaces which are used to move the fibers coming from the fiber cartridge to a bundle remover and work in conjunction with the filling instrument. Between each fiber supply duct in association with the fiber cartridge and the drawer, the device is provided with a loading device which makes is possible for certain loading spaces to work exclusively with certain fiber supply ducts.
Claims24
A device for supplying fibres to a filling unit of a brush manufacturing machine, the device comprising:
- a fibre cartridge having at least two individual fibre supply ducts, each of the supply ducts arranged to store fibres;
- a moveable drawer having individual loading spaces, the drawer being configured to receive fibres from said individual supply ducts into the individual loading spaces and to move the fibres from the cartridge to a bundle remover for transfer to a filling unit;
- at least one loading device associated with each fibre supply duct and operable to transfer fibres from its associated supply duct to one or more of the spaces of the drawer;
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- a control device operable to control the movements of the loading devices and the drawer such that fibres from an individual fibre supply duct may be transferred into its respective loading device and then into selected individual ones of said loading spaces of said drawer by the loading devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.