Abstract: A device for preparing flock fibers has an inlet pipe, a pair of silos, a pair of feeding wheels, positioned on the bottom of each silo, an opening wheel, down-line of the respective feeding wheels, and a single conveyor roller, fed from the two opening wheels via converging pipes.

Abstract: A connector (10) for a duct (1) for the pneumatic feeding of fibre to at least one carding machine (2) has an upstream portion (14) and a side duct (18) having a through opening (20) for fibre feeding to the carding machine (2). The connector comprises “stepped” means (22) for deflecting the stream of fibre, and lead-in bevels (41, 42) or a closing wall (100) inclined for the end-of-line connector, in order to even out the density of fibre sent to the carding machine.

Abstract: A cogged-belt drive device for drawing along mobile flats of flat cards, in which the cogged belts are equipped, in their development facing the flat guides, with scraping or cleaning elements that eliminate the accumulation of foreign bodies from the guides on which the resting elements of the card flats are drawn along.

Abstract: An apparatus for operating and controlling a textile machine comprises driving means, an operating device, a control device and selection means, for the purpose of using the said textile machine for conventional weaving processes and/or for stubbing, multicount, multitwist and multicount-multitwist processes.

Abstract: A carding machine comprises a main drum fed by a feed system with roughly attenuated and cleaned fibers, a plurality of fixed clothed segments, and opening cylinders or briseurs which feed the said main drum at different points of the main drum. The machine is characterized in that it comprises a first set of moving flats which performs a first, gentle parallelization and a second set of moving flats which carries out another parallelization that is more aggressive than the first.

Abstract: A connector (10) for a duct (1) for the pneumatic feeding of fibre to at least one carding machine (2) has an upstream portion (14) and a side duct (18) having a through opening (20) for fibre feeding to the carding machine (2).

Abstract: An apparatus for operating and controlling a textile machine comprises driving means, an operating device, a control device and selection means, for the purpose of using the said textile machine for conventional weaving processes and/or for stubbing, multicount, multitwist and multicount-multitwist processes.

Abstract: Device for cleaning the guides of travelling flats in a flat carding machine, to eliminate from these deposits of foreign material found in the carded fibrous material, consisting in fitting the travelling flats assembly with flats provided with scraping or cleaning elements which come into contact with the surfaces of the guides on which the elements on which the flats rest are pulled.

Abstract: A flat card fed with fibers by means of a plurality of feed devices comprising licker-in rollers that operate in parallel so as to feed different fibers onto different points of the main carding drum, where the feed points are set sequentially and are staggered in such a way as to constitute, on the main carding drum, a series of pre-carding areas that are specific for the fibers fed at each point and that are provided with equipment adjustable for each type of fiber that is being processed.

Abstract: An automatic device for gathering and packaging card sliver in cans, the device having a plurality of gathering stations for cans of different size that have a rotary platform (35, 45) set underneath for rotation of the can receiving the sliver and of a distributor (50, 50′) set above and driven by a motion of revolution, in which the cans are moved according to a single common path and with common members for imparting movement and for driving.

Abstract: A condensing unit for condensing a bundle of textile fibers comprises a fixed tube of circular cross-section, which is common to several spinning stations located side by side, is connected to a suction source, and has a suction slot in each station. Filtering sleeves are mounted so as to be freely rotatable on the tube and have perforated portions which cover the corresponding slots. The tube has, in each spinning station, a recess which extends along an arc of the circumference of the tube. This recess has a pair of axially spaced-apart radial surfaces which cooperate with the sleeve in order to keep it in the correct axial position along the tube with the perforated portion over the slot.

Abstract: A fixed tube of circular cross-section, which is common to several-spinning stations located side by side, is connected to a suction source and has, in each station, a suction slot which is located on the path of the bundle of fibres and is elongate along the direction of movement thereof. Each slot is enlarged in its portion which is located downstream, with reference to the direction of movement of the bundle of fibres.

Abstract: A fixed tube of circular cross-section, which is common to several spinning stations located side by side, is connected to a suction source and has, in each station, a suction slot which is located on the path of the bundle of fibers to be condensed and is elongate along the direction of movement thereof. In each spinning station, the tube has a second suction opening located proximate to each suction slot.

Abstract: An opening machine for separating the fibres from intermingled impurities in cotton tufts comprises a storage bin into which cotton tufts to be processed are introduced, and an opening cylinder associated with cleaning blades for separating the impurities from the fibres and with suction openings for removing the impurities and the fibres separately. The opening machine comprises a pre-opening roller for performing a preliminary opening of the tufts. The cotton material is withdrawn from the bin by feed rollers, is processed by the pre-opening roller, and is introduced into a chamber in the form of pre-opened tufts. A final feed roller withdraws the tufts from the chamber and supplies them to the opening cylinder. The final feed roller works at a withdrawal rate greater than that of the feed rollers to prevent accumulation of the tufts in the chamber.

Abstract: A device and a process for controlling the motor drives (121) of textile machines, comprising at least one “encoder” (101), capable of controlling the number of revolutions of each motor (121), and at least one central electronic unit (111) processing the data originating from all the motor drives (121), based on an application program containing the synchronizing data between the individual motors (121) and the technological operating parameters of the textile machine.

Abstract: A condensing unit for condensing a bundle of textile fibers comprises a fixed tube of circular cross-section, which is common to several spinning stations located side by side, is connected to a suction source, and has a suction slot in each station. Filtering sleeves are mounted so as to be freely rotatable on the tube and have perforated portions which cover the corresponding slots. The tube has, in each spinning station, a recess which extends along an arc of the circumference of the tube. This recess has a pair of axially spaced-apart radial surfaces which cooperate with the sleeve in order to keep it in the correct axial position along the tube with the perforated portion over the slot.

Abstract: A fixed tube of circular cross-section, which is common to several spinning stations located side by side, is connected to a suction source and has, in each station, a suction slot which is located on the path of the bundle of fibers to be condensed and is elongate along the direction of movement thereof. In each spinning station, the tube has a second suction opening located proximate to each suction slot.

Abstract: A fixed tube of circular cross-section, which is common to several spinning stations located side by side, is connected to a suction source and has, in each station, a suction slot which is located on the path of the bundle of fibers and is elongate along the direction of movement thereof. Each slot is enlarged in its portion which is located downstream, with reference to the direction of movement of the bundle of fibers.

Abstract: A demountable subassembly is provided for a series of compacting units of adjacent spinning stations. The subassembly includes a transverse tube with a series of longitudinal suction slots and a suction manifold connectable to the tube in the region of a central opening thereof and having first locking seats on opposite sides of the manifold. Two stopper-like locking elements are mounted at the ends of the tube with each having a second locking seat and two tensioning units are provided to be locked along the tube on opposite sides of the manifold. Each tensioning unit includes a plurality of tensioners for a corresponding plurality of flexible filter loops circulating about the tube over the slots, and tabs at the ends of each tensioning unit for locking in a first locking seat of the manifold and in a second locking seat of one of the stopper-like elements.

Abstract: A fixed tube of circular cross-section, which is common to several spinning stations disposed side by side, is connected to a suction source and has, in each station, a suction slot arranged on the path of a bundle of fibres to be compacted and along its direction of advance. A cylindrical sleeve is freely rotatable on the tube and has a perforated portion which extends around a corresponding slot. The sleeve is rotated about the fixed tube by a pressure roller which presses the bundle of fibres against the perforated portion of the sleeve. The sleeve cooperates with an axially stationary retaining element which is separate from the tube and is arranged to limit the axial movements of the sleeve along the tube.