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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7032273 | Fiber mixing and opening machine A fiber blending, opening and cleaning arrangement which includes a feed section for delivering a blend of fibers onto a first opening and blending operation, comprising an array of parallel opening and blending rolls rotating in one direction and arranged along an ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6615455 | Fiber opening apparatus A fiber opening device comprising a feed section opening into the fiber opening section. The opening section includes a cabinet with an inner chamber, a waste removal chamber and a fiber web removal unit. The inner chamber includes a doffing roll and a co... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6088881 | Method and apparatus for separating foreign matter from fibrous material An apparatus for separating foreign matter from fiber tufts includes an air duct in which fiber tufts are pneumatically conveyed into the system via a high speed air stream. The air duct provides an air stream that conveys the fiber tufts with trash on to... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5890264 | Aeromechanical individualizer An aeromechanical individualizer for individualizing entities within a fiber sample includes a cylindrical rotating beater wheel, having a non-permeable cylindrical surface and having carding elements, such as pins or wire points, on the cylindrical surfa... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5414900 | Fiber cleaning The present invention is drawn to fiber cleaning utilizing an alternating series of cleaning saw cylinders and doffing brush cylinders. The doffing brush cylinders transfer ginned fiber from an upstream cleaning saw cylinder to the next downstream cleanin... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5295283 | Fiber cleaning The present invention is drawn to fiber cleaning utilizing an alternating series of cleaning saw cylinders and doffing brush cylinders. The doffing brush cylinders transfer ginned fiber from an upstream cleaning saw cylinder to the next downstream cleanin... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5173994 | Fiber cleaning apparatus with air flow deflector A fiber cleaning utilizing an alternating series of cleaning saw cylinders and doffing brush cylinders. The doffing brush cylinders transfer ginned fiber from an upstream cleaning saw cylinder to the next downstream cleaning saw cylinder in such a way tha... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5170534 | Apparatus for cleaning the surface of textile fiber bales An apparatus for treating a fiber bale having a soiled surface. The apparatus includes a cleaning device arranged for engaging a bale surface to remove soiled material therefrom and a displacing arrangement for effecting a relative motion between the fibe... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5155886 | Grid and cylinder air wash baffle wall for lint cleaner An arcuate baffle wall is provided within a conventional lint cleaner forward of and horizontally registered with the front side of the saw cylinder of the lint cleaner. The upper and lower extremities of the baffle wall are generally horizontally registe... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5123145 | Method and apparatus for the fine cleaning of textile fibers A method and apparatus for cleaning textile fibers for use in conjunction with an opening roller to which the textile fibers are fed and around which the textile fibers are conveyed, in the form of a fiber bat, in a transport direction. The apparatus incl... | 06/23/1992 |
| 4811464 | Pneumatic assembly for waste removal A casing under vacuum located under the carding members has the suction at a position substantially central through an opening developing transversally and interesting almost the whole development of the working front; transversal clefts for the air inlet... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4654933 | Gin lint cleaner with fiber return A cotton gin lint cleaner includes a rotating saw cylinder. A continuous layer of lint cotton is fed along the cylinder by feed works. The layer is seated in and moved downstream by saw teeth on the cylinder. Foreign matter is loosened from the layer as i... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4601084 | Means for adjusting an extractor for cotton stripper A means for adjusting the clearance between the grid plate assembly and the drum of an extractor of the type which separates trash from cotton lint as it passes through this clearance. The present means is easily and quickly installed on commercially-avai... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4528725 | Gin lint cleaner A cotton gin lint cleaner includes a rotating saw cylinder. A continuous layer of lint cotton is fed along the cylinder by feed works. The layer is seated in and moved downstream by saw teeth on the cylinder. Foreign matter is loosened from the layer as i... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4505005 | Grating arrangement for an opening roller for fibers A grating composed of individual bars is provided for an opening roller serving for cleaning of fibers and provided with clothing. Each bar carries a guide element extending over its length and comprises a guide sheet, the spacing of which from the clothi... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4497088 | Ground cotton retriever with dual cleaning means An improved cotton cleaner incorporating a cleaning mechanism utilizing successive stages of saw-tooth drums and transverse bars. The physical orientation of individual cotton balls is controlled to assure exposure of at least two sides of each cotton bal... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4486922 | Apparatus for separating impurities from fiber material Apparatus for separating impurities from fiber material, composed of: a cylinder provided on its circumference with clothing and connected to be rotated in a selected direction for gripping and transporting fiber material, a feed device disposed for feedi... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4470172 | Apparatus for opening and cleaning fiber tufts Apparatus for opening and cleaning fiber tufts, composed of a rotatably mounted cylinder with a card clothing mounted on its circumference for gripping tufts and conveying them, a system for pneumatically feeding a mixture of tufts and air toward the cyli... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4458381 | Cotton ginning system embodying a lint cleaner A cotton ginning system embodying a lint cleaner in which the batt of cotton delivered to the lint cleaner is maintained at an optimum thickness even though the rate of ginning varies. The batt thickness is maintained by correlating the same with the rate... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4454631 | Improved safety bar cutoff and brake method An emergency actuator bar extends across an opening in the housing of a lint cleaner in a cotton gin. Actuator arms which hold the bar also normally hold a trip plate in the run position. However, a workman striking the emergency bar will remove a sear on... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4416035 | Safety bar cutoff and brake An emergency actuator bar extends across an opening in the housing of a lint cleaner in a cotton gin. Actuator arms which hold the bar also normally hold a trip plate in the run position. However, a workman striking the emergency bar will remove a sear on... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4407047 | Cotton ginning system embodying a lint cleaner and process of operating the same A cotton ginning system embodying a lint cleaner and a process of operating the same in which the batt of cotton delivered to the lint cleaner is maintained at an optimum thickness even though the rate of ginning varies. The batt thickness is maintained b... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4399591 | Extractor-feeder Cotton in an extractor-feeder is passed through three scrubber cylinders. The first two having grid bars of a regular 1/4 or 5/16 inch spacing and the third having grid bars at about twice the regular, or 1/2 inch spacings. Any locks of seed cotton in the... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4310950 | Elevator cleaner Seed cotton harvested by a stripper is blown upward along a duct to an open saw cylinder. The locks of cotton are snagged on the teeth of the saws of the saw cylinder while the air passes to within the saw cylinders and out the ends of the saw cylinder. T... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4253215 | Lint cleaning apparatus for automatic control of cotton quality A plurality of lint cotton quality measurements is made on lint cotton which is to be fed into the lint cleaning process in a cotton ginning system. The plurality of cotton quality measurements in the form of individual electrical signals is communicated ... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4035871 | Opening and cleaning apparatus for an open end spinning unit In order to provide effective cleaning of the opened fibrous material to be supplied to a spinning rotor, the fiber tuft projects into a removal opening opposite the opener roller, thereby permitting the impurities to be beaten out of the fibers, clamped ... | 07/19/1977 |
