Abstract: A control unit (10) for “pilgrim step” operation of the detaching cylinders (22, 23) in a combing machine, comprising a first electric motor, which rotates the circular comb (18) of the combing machine with uniform motion and a second electric motor (11), rotating a shaft (12), which houses the components to transmit motion to the detaching cylinders (22, 23). The first electric motor also operates at least one of the components that transmit motion to the detaching cylinders (22, 23), and the motor (11) is operated with a law of motion comprising acceleration and deceleration phases. Both motors mesh at all times and the first motor operates the components to transmit motion to the detaching cylinders (22, 23) by means of a differential device to obtain motion of the “pilgrim step” type.

Abstract: A control unit (10) for “pilgrim step” operation of the detaching cylinders (22, 23) in a combing machine, comprising a first electric motor, which rotates the circular comb (18) of the combing machine with uniform motion and a second electric motor (11), rotating a shaft (12), which houses the components to transmit motion to the detaching cylinders (22, 23). The first electric motor also operates at least one of the components that transmit motion to the detaching cylinders (22, 23), and the motor (11) is operated with a law of motion comprising acceleration and deceleration phases. Both motors mesh at all times and the first motor operates the components to transmit motion to the detaching cylinders (22, 23) by means of a differential device to obtain motion of the “pilgrim step” type.

Abstract: A comber machine with a nipper head (3) has a fixed bearing (2), and at least one pair of detaching rolls (6") which are rotatably mounted in bearings (41). The nipper head (3) and the detaching rolls (6") are moved during a combing cycle towards one another and away from one another by the distance of a stroke path, up to a minimum distance which corresponds to a predetermined separation value. While still maintaining the stroke path, the predetermined separation distance (ecartement value) can be adjusted. To facilitate the setting of the ecartement value, provision is made for bearings (41) of the detaching rolls (6") to be displaced relative to the fixed bearing (2) of the nipper head (3), jointly on a track (45) which enlarges or reduces the separation value.

Abstract: A nipper apparatus for use in a comber has a nipper frame having a cushion plate fixed to a lower portion of the frame. The nipper frame is suspended as a whole by a nipper pivot and a nipper shaft and is arranged to swing toward and away from a detaching roller by a reciprocating turn of the nipper shaft. The nipper apparatus is arranged to repeat gripping and releasing of a fleece on the cushion plate by a nipper knife through motion of a nipper arm having the nipper knife at a front thereof and a spring rod at a rear end thereof which turn according to a swing of the nipper frame. A spring end portion of the spring rod serves as a point for providing pressure support for the nipper arm and is pivotably movably supported with respect to a machine frame. The spring end portion is movable along an arc to a predetermined position according to a change in a nipper gauge and fixable in that position.

Abstract: A textile machine is provided with apparatus for preparing the trailing end of a lap and a leading end of a fresh lap so that each end has a reduced fiber mass per unit length of lap in the prepared end. These lap ends are thereafter superimposed and joined together for subsequent processing in a combing unit of a combing machine or a drafting unit of a ribbon lap machine. The respective ends of the two laps may be prepared by a tearing action caused by clamping of the respective lap end between two spaced apart nip lines which are moved away from each other and wherein the spacing is slightly more than the length of the longest fiber in the lap. Preparation of a lap end may also be accomplished using a suction head for clamping of a lap along a nip line in order to carry out tearing of the lap to produced a prepared end.

Abstract: An improved combing cylinder utilized for a combing machine provided with a fringe control member having a chevron shaped cross section and a forwardly inclined surface sloped toward the cylindrical boss of the combing cylinder, with respect to the direction of rotation of the combing cylinder. The fringe control member is rigidly mounted on the combing cylinder at a position downstream of the needle segment of the combing cylinder, in a condition satisfying the timing whereby the tip line surface of the fringe control member closely faces the bottom detaching roller when the detaching rollers start to change their direction of rotation from a reverse rotation to a normal rotation. The radius of the forward end of the fringe control member is made smaller than the radius of a peripheral surface of the tip end of the combing needles of the needle segment, so that a recessed portion is formed adjacent to and behind the last alignment of combing needles of the needle segment.

Abstract: The drive mechanism for the feed roll of a combing machine employs a freewheel having an inner member secured to the feed roll and a concentric outer member secured to the pivotal arm which mounts the top nipper. In addition, locking elements are disposed between the inner and outer members and the outer member provided with a sawtooth configuration so that the locking elements may lock during rotation of the outer member under the influence of the arm and may move into a released position during an opposite rotation of the outer member. The lost motion or idle travel in the changeover between the released position and the locking position is quite reduced. Thus, feeds are always of substantially exactly the same magnitude with a resulting improvement in the produced sliver.

Abstract: In a combing machine, in particular for combing of cotton, having a combing roller with at least one combing segment, conveying devices for the fiber tuft to be combed, and an upper and lower nipper for fixing the fiber tuft during the engagement of the combing segment, where the upper and/or lower nippers are seated pivotable in a forward and backward direction on an axis located above the comb cylinder, it has been provided, in order to attain a high operating speed while reducing the transfer paths and the mass to be moved, to derive the drive for the pivot movement of the upper and/or lower nippers directly from the drive for the combing roller by means of a cam drive.

Abstract: Method and means for providing assemblages of fully opened and combed fibers for intimate blending with other staple fibers of a diverse type are disclosed, wherein combed tufts detached from preceding and succeeding tufts are moved in an air stream under subatmospheric pressure to a collection chamber. Movement by such an air stream assures that the parallelized fibers of the tuft are not disturbed but remain in a fully opened and combed condition for subsequent intimate blending. This method and means assure that the fibers are not bent, compressed or otherwise changed from their fully opened and combed state.