Textiles: fiber preparation – Working – Fluid or special treatment
Patent
1997-06-17
2000-05-09
Calvert, John J.
Textiles: fiber preparation
Working
Fluid or special treatment
19 65A, 19200, 19205, 2009700, 406 69, 406109, 406155, D01B 304
Patent
active
060585676
ABSTRACT:
An arrangement for sorting a first category of fibers having a first set of properties into at least a second category of fibers having a second set of properties and a third category of fibers having a third set of properties. The arrangement comprises a sorting channel including at least one travelling teeth laden carrier surface driven in a first direction within the sorting channel. The sorting channel further includes at least a first inlet and at least first and second outlets. A first energy field flows through the sorting channel in a second direction. The first category of fibers are plied to the travelling teeth carried on the driven carrier surface and the first energy field causes at least the longer fibers from the first category to be held latched onto the travelling teeth as it washes and strips away shorter fibers and impurities producing the second category of fibers. As the first energy field exits the sorting channel through the first outlet it also acts as a first doffer for removing the stripped shorter fibers and impurities out of the sorting channel. These non-latched fibers and impurities comprise the third category of fibers. A second doffer is provided for doffing the latched second category of fibers from the travelling teeth after these fibers are carried out of the sorting channel through the second outlet by the travelling teeth.
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Calvert John J.
Flint Cort
Jaudon Henry S.
Welch Gary L.
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