US 6,235,999 B1Granted

Apparatus for advancing and weighing textile fibers

AssigneeTrutzschler GmbH & Co. KG

InventorBernhard Rübenach

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Abstract

An apparatus for feeding and weighing textile fibers includes a weighing scale container having an open end chargeable with fiber material; an upper feed chute having an upper end chargeable with fiber material and a lower end; a withdrawing roll obturating the lower end; a first drive for slowly rotating the withdrawing roll; a feed tray cooperating with the withdrawing roll and defining a nip into which fiber material is drawn from the upper feed chute and from which the fiber material is discharged; an opening roll arranged immediately at the nip for receiving the fiber material discharged from the nip; a second drive for rapidly rotating the opening roll for tearing fiber material from the nip and for opening and discharging the fiber material; a lower feed chute having an upper end receiving fiber material discharged from the opening roll and a lower end; a movable shutoff gate situated at the lower end of the lower feed chute for opening and closing the lower feed chute; and a third drive for moving the shutoff gate.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An apparatus for feeding and weighing textile fibers, comprising

(a) a weighing scale container having an open end chargeable with fiber material;
(b) an upper feed chute having an upper end chargeable with fiber material and a lower end;
(c) a withdrawing roll obturating said lower end;
(d) first drive means for rotating said withdrawing roll;
(e) a feed tray cooperating with said withdrawing roll and defining a nip into which fiber material is drawn from said upper feed chute and from which the fiber material is discharged;
(f) an opening roll arranged immediately at said nip for receiving the fiber material discharged from said nip;
(g) second drive means for rotating said opening roll for tearing fiber material from said nip and for opening and discharging the fiber material;
(h) a lower feed chute having an upper end receiving fiber material discharged from said opening roll and a lower end;
(i) a movable shutoff gate situated at said lower end of said lower feed chute for opening and closing said lower feed chute;
said movable shutoff gate being positioned above said weighing scale container for discharging the textile fibers into said weighing scale container when said movable shutoff gate opens said lower feed chute;
and
(j) third drive means for moving said shutoff gate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.