Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses and methods of creating fibers, such as microfibers and nanofibers. The methods discussed herein employ centrifugal forces to transform material into fibers. Apparatuses that may be used to create fibers are also described. To improve the collection of fibers, various devices and systems for controlling the deposition pattern of the produced fibers are described.

Abstract: The device for producing a uniform or profiled fleece or a fiber flock mat includes a material dispensing device which produces a fleece and a transport device for the further transport of the fleece. The device also includes a measuring device to determine a transverse profile and a longitudinal profile of the fleece by measuring the mass per unit area of the fleece across its width, and a profile-changing device for supplying individualized fibers or fiber flocks to the fleece. A control unit controls the profile-changing device on the basis of the results of the measuring device in such a way that the profile-changing device supplies the individualized fibers or fiber flocks section by section in a targeted manner. Thus, depending on the purpose of the application, a uniform fleece or a fleece with a nonuniform transverse profile or longitudinal profile can be produced.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing a scrim. The method includes depositing several band sections next to one another on a conveyor device that at least temporarily moves in a direction of transport. The direction of transport is oriented at a predetermined angle to a band direction and each band section has a front edge running in the band direction and a rear edge running in the band direction. The method also includes placing the band sections so that the rear edge of a first band section is adjacent the front edge of a second band section, calculating a rear-edge shape of the first band section and a front-edge shape of the second band section and placing the second band section on the conveyor device relative to the first band section as a function of a relation between the front-edge shape and the rear-edge shape.

Abstract: The feed device for scattering individualized fibers or fiber flocks comprises a scattering section, in which a driven feed roller and a driven opening roller cooperating with the feed roller are arranged. A dispensing device for storing and dispensing a fiber sliver is assigned to the feed roller in such a way that the feed roller pulls in the fiber sliver provided by the dispensing device, as a result of which the feed roller is fed with the fiber sliver or the fiber fleece strip. The opening roller is arranged adjacent to the feed roller in such a way that it opens up the fiber sliver pulled in by the feed roller to form individual fibers or fiber flocks and scatters them.

Abstract: A crosslapper receives a card web and folds it into a lap intended to be needle-punched or consolidated by other ways. The web includes zones which are more condensed, having a spectrum of orientation of fibers with a component parallel to the width of the web, alternating with less condensed zones having a longitudinal unidirectional spectrum of orientations. The zones which are less condensed are used to form the edge zones of the lap. The result is that the lap has different respective spectra of orientation which pre-compensate for the unwanted changes produced by the needle-punching or other consolidation which follows. A needle-punched lap is obtained having a uniform MD/CD ratio (relationship between longitudinal and respectively transverse tensile strengths) or having a sought profile of the MD/CD ratio across the width of the lap.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fibrous structure is particularly, though not exclusively, applicable to the manufacture of friction products such as preform discs. The method comprises mounting a former on a shaft. First feeds of fibrous material are spaced along the shaft and applied to the former in a direction tangential to the shaft as the shaft is rotated. A second feed is also applied to the former in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The fibrous materials in the feeds overlie as the shaft rotates and the thickness of the material applied to the former increases to form the fibrous structure. Lengths of the first and/or second feeds are then inserted into the fibrous structure body in a radial direction with respect to the shaft as the shaft is rotated to interconnect the overlying layers and hold the structure together.

Abstract: In the production of a solidified nonwoven web by crosslaying a card web produced with a uniform transverse profile by a card web forming device and then by consolidating the crosslaid nonwoven web thus formed, the basis weight of the solidified nonwoven web or of the crosslaid nonwoven web is measured only in the middle and in the area of at least one of its edges, and the basis weight of the card web to be laid is locally changed on the basis of a comparison of the measurement values with the nominal values preestablished by the laws, previously described for the nonwoven web to be produced, governing the structural change in the product caused by solidifying.

Abstract: A weigh-pan metering and blending apparatus having a holding chamber for receiving fiber from a fiber distributer and providing temporary storage of the fiber. The metering chamber meters the fiber received from the holding chamber, wherein the metering chamber includes at least one discharge device for advancing the fiber to diverter doors pivotally mounted at one end of the metering chamber for oscillating movement between first and second downstream delivery openings. First and second weigh-pans communicating with respective ones of the first and second downstream delivery openings receive the fiber from the metering chamber. First and second discharge chambers receive the fiber from respective ones of the first and second weigh-pans, wherein the first and second discharge chambers include a discharge device for advancing the fiber to adjacent transfer ducts for discharge.

Abstract: A weighing device for the determination of weight of a fiber material is provided. The weighing device includes multiple weighing arms. Each of the weighing arms is pivotably supported on one end. Also, each of the weighing arms is supported on an opposite end by a weighing element. The weighing arms are configured for supporting and transporting the fiber material. The weighing element provides a signal for the determination of weight of the fiber material.

Abstract: The card has an accumulator transfer cylinder between the carding drum and the first cylinder for forming a non-woven web. In order to take up fibers from the periphery of the carding drum, the accumulator transfer cylinder preferably has clothing comprising a plurality of teeth that are inclined relative to the radius of the accumulator transfer cylinder and oriented in the direction of rotation of said cylinder. When the card is in operation, the accumulator transfer cylinder is driven in the opposite direction of rotation to the direction of rotation of the carding drum and at a circumferential speed greater than the circumferential speed of the carding drum.

Abstract: A fiber web is formed by the airlay technique on a web forming and transport surface by dispersing and projecting individualized fibers onto said surface by means of a flow of air, and the fibers are subjected to a carding operation prior to being inserted into the flow of air. According to an essential characteristic of the invention, action is taken on the fiber feed rate by means of one or more regulator systems between the carding operation and the insertion of the fibers into the air flow so as to make said fiber feed rate more regular. In a preferred variant of the invention, a regulator system comprises at least a combing cylinder which is designed to be rotated to have a circumferential speed that is strictly less than that of the carding cylinder and that rotates in a direction of rotation that is opposite to that of the carding cylinder, and that is coated on its periphery with a covering whose teeth or spikes point backwards, i.e. in the opposite direction to its direction of rotation.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a fiber batt includes an opening roll for opening fibers fed thereto; a fiber removing device directing an air stream to the opening roll for removing the opened fiber therefrom; a downwardly open fiber gathering hood; an arrangement for introducing into the hood an air stream carrying the opened fiber removed from the opening roll; an air-pervious, continuously moving fiber gathering surface covered by the fiber gathering hood; an arrangement for forcing air from the fiber gathering hood through the fiber gathering surface for depositing the fibers thereon to form a fiber batt; and an arrangement for heating the fibers with a heated air stream in a zone between the opening roll and the fiber gathering surface for effecting a heat treatment of the fibers, such as a binding of the fibers with a binding agent mixed to the fibers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for distributing reinforcement fibers includes a chute for supplying reinforcement fibers, the chute having an outlet end, and a metering belt mounted for endless travel along a first path at the outlet end of the chute. The metering belt has elongate members with tips extending outwardly from the metering belt, to define a volume between the tips and the metering belt. The tips of the metering belt pass sufficiently close to the chute so that fibers having penetrated the volume formed by the elongate members are carried away by the metering belt. The metering belt is also mounted for endless travel along a second path around a curved surface which causes adjacent elongate members to spread apart and diverge from each other, thereby causing the fibers to be discharged from the metering belt. A collection surface receives the discharged fibers.

Abstract: A fiber metering device adapted for feeding fiber to a fiber utilizing assembly. The device comprises a first fiber feeding unit and a spaced apart second fiber feeding unit. The fiber feeding units are spaced apart so that the second unit is downstream with respect to the first unit. The feeding units are independently driven at relatively variable fiber feeding speeds. Each feeding unit includes a weight transducer means sensitive to the weight of fiber being fed by that unit. The speed of each feeding unit is controlled in accordance with the weight of fiber sensed by its associated transducer means.

Abstract: To ensure that on-line measurements performed at a moving or stationary fiber structure, such as a fiber composite or a sliver, deliver useful and reproducible measuring values, the fiber structure, whether such be fiber composites or fiber slivers, must be compressed at the location where they pass a measuring location or site where there is accomplished the measurement with a commercially available measuring instrument or apparatus. According to the invention, there is selected as the measuring location or site a location of the fiber processing process where the fiber structure is compressed any way by virtue of the undergoing fiber processing process.

Abstract: It is desired to detect and to compensate position errors occurring during the manufacture of a web consisting of a multilayer non-woven fabric by means of a laying machine, in which a web consisting of a monolayer non-woven fabric is supplied to a conveyor belt transversely to the direction of travel of said belt and is laid onto said belt by a reciprocating motion to form a multilayer web. For that purpose, the measured value signal is analyzed by machine, preferably by a Fourier transformations for errors consisting of periodically occurring fluctuations of the signal amplitude and the velocity of the conveyor belt and/or the velocity at which the monolayer non-woven web is supplied and/or the width in which the monolayer non-woven web is supplied and/or the width in which the non-woven web is laid onto the delivering belt are automatically controlled to minimize the periodic fluctuations of the signal amplitude.

Abstract: A method of controlling the opening of a fiber feed at an opening machine like a cleaning machine or a card, in which an opening element is moved past a fiber feed for loosening and taking over of fibers; simultaneously attenuating the fiber feed; determining an output signal corresponding to the opening degree of the fiber feed; comparing the output signal with a reference or set signal for adjusting at least one opening parameter selected from a group consisting of three variables; operating the opening machine following the adjustment; checking the adjustment with a subsequent output signal after adjustment in order to provide further adjustment in the same sense or further adjustment in the contrary sense or no further adjustment of the selected parameters. A device for carrying out this method is also set forth.

Abstract: In a textile fiber preparation machine, thickness and/or unevenness characteristics of a lap (W) formed by a web or wadding of textile fibers being fed in the machine are determined for individual longitudinal strips spaced across the width of the lap. A plurality of individual sensors (2) are arranged next to one another over the width of the lap (W) and press the lap (W) against a stationary guide (4,5, 6--6'). Each of the sensors (2) is movable toward and away from the guide and is resiliently biased toward the guide. The amount of movement of an individual sensor (2) away from the guide by the lap is a measure of the thickness of the lap portion being contacted by that sensor. The use of individual sensors arranged end to end across the width of the lap improves sensitivity so that even brief changes in thickness when the lap has a high transport speed can be measured reliably. Furthermore, the apparatus can be adapted quickly and simply to changing lap widths.

Abstract: A metering method or a metering apparatus for dispensing predeterminable quantities of fiber flocks per unit time by two feed rollers (18, 20; 18.1, 18.2, 170, 172) which are arranged at the lower end of a flock shaft (14, 14.1, 14.2), which are rotatable in opposite directions and which form a conveying gap between them, with an opening roll (22; 22.1, 180) preferably being arranged beneath the feed rollers, is characterized in that at least one of the feed rollers is biased in the direction of the other feed roller (18; 20.1; 170) and is movable away from the latter under the pressure of the flocks; in that the spacing (x) between the two feed rollers, or a value proportional to this distance is measured; and in that the speed of rotation of at least one of the feed rollers is so regulated that the product (n.multidot.x) of the speed and of the spacing remains constant, at least on average.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of maintaining a predetermined quality of a carded sliver, wherein there is a predetermined overproduction from a card and/or a drawframe relative to a spinning machine. The method includes temporarily decreasing production to temporarily compensate for the overproductions. The sliver which is produced during the decrease in production may be delivered to a separate can.

Abstract: Non-woven fabrics are manufactured using a carding machine with outlet comb, a blamire feed or spreader/batt-making machine with cylinders for depositing a web of fibers, and one or more needling devices. The surface weight of the web delivered by the carding machine to the blamire feed is modified by varying the speed of the comb as a function of the changing positions of the cylinders whereby a batt of variable surface weight over its width is obtained so as to counteract the distortions of surface weight distribution produced by the needling devices.

Abstract: The abstract related herein is a device for continuously weighing a web during formation thereof such that uniformity can be promoted in a continuous process. A method for forming fiber board is also disclosed.

Abstract: A textile fiber feeder includes a feed chute adapted to be charged with fiber material and having a lower portion constituting a zone in which a fiber lap is formed from the fiber material; a measuring arrangement for measuring a distribution of the fiber material along the feed chute width and for generating signals representing the distribution of material; a sensor member forming part of the measuring arrangement and directly responding to the distribution of fiber material; and arrangement for generating an air flow in the feed chute for affecting the distribution of the fiber material; and a regulating arrangement for controlling the air flow along the feed chute width as a function of the signals. The regulating arrangement includes a setting member arranged for directly altering the air flow. The sensor member and the setting member are arranged in an adjoining relationship in the zone where the fiber lap is formed.

Abstract: In order to effect a controllable change in the production of a fiber-processing machine there is changed the working width of the fiber-processing machine.

Abstract: A textile fiber preparation feed system and method are disclosed in which processed textile fibers from a blender (A) are delivered to a flow-through textile cleaner (B) and then directed to a vertical chute feed (C). An air stream conveys the fibers from blender (A) to chute feed (C) across cleaning rollers (34, 36) of cleaner (B) without a nip feed providing increased cleaning efficiency. Control system (60) continues operation of top feed roll (52) after termination of carding machine (14) and discharge of fiber batt (12) from the chute feed to purge excess fibers in the air stream. In this manner, accumulation of the excess fibers in a fiber column (F) above top feed roll is prevented which would block air exit (50) and choke down top feed roll (52) upon resumption of the carding machine or fiber batt discharge.

Abstract: A method and means for controlling the drafting of sliver in a draw frame using sensing means with the aid of which variations in mass of the sliver can be sensed and a resulting signal applied to drafting means located after the sensing means in the direction of travel of the sliver and which changes the draft to compensate for sensed variations in the sliver mass. The sensing means and the drafting means are connected to controlling means which include a storage device. A sensed variation in sliver mass is temporarily stored by the storage device for the duration of a delay time which takes into consideration the traveling time of the sliver form the sensing means to the drafting means. The delay time is shortened by a correction time as a function of the magnitude and/or rate of the sensed variation in sliver mass. This has the effect that variations in mass of the sliver can be compensated almost completely by the drafting device.

Abstract: A control system for a web-laying machine having reciprocating carriage means laying a web in folds on travelling conveyor means comprises variable speed drive means driving one of said carriage and conveyor means, conveyor measuring means measuring the travel of said conveyor means between reversals of direction of said carriage means, and control means controlling said drive means in accordance with the measured travel.

Abstract: An apparatus for regulating the rpm of the feed roller of the tuft feeder and having an rpm measuring device connected to at least one card roller for generating a first signal representing an operational magnitude of the card roller; a signal generating device connected to an output of the rpm measuring device and arranged for generating a second signal as a function of the first signal; a pressure sensing device for sensing pressure in the feed chute and for generating a third signal representing the pressure; a regulator connected to an output of the pressure sensing device and arranged for generating a fourth signal as a function of the third signal; and an integrating device connected to an output of the signal generating device and an output of the regulator for receiving the second and fourth signals and emitting a fifth signal as a function of the second and fourth signals. The integrating device is connected to the output amplifier for applying the fifth signal thereto.

Abstract: A spinning machine, especially a drawing frame comprising at least a pair of feed rollers provided at a fiber working portion for carding at least one sliver and for feeding said sliver to be carded and drafted, at least one first motor for driving said feed rollers, at least a pair of front rollers for drawing out and feeding said sliver just carded at the fiber working portion, at least one second motor for driving the front rollers, and an electronic rotation control unit for controlling the rotations of the two different motors so as to synchronize the rotation of the first motor with the rotation of the other motor, i.e. the second motor and to be equal to a predetermined set rotational speed ratio. With this construction according to the present invention, gear change can be dispensed with when modifying the draft rate, and the change of the draft rate can be promptly performed.

Abstract: An installation for pneumatically supplying fiber material to a plurality of carding machines arranged for simultaneous operation includes a plurality of card feeders, each being operatively connected to a separate carding machine. Each card feeder has a feed chute delivering fiber material to the carding machine associated therewith and a reserve chute delivering fiber material to the feed chute associated therewith. The installation further has a common transport conduit connected to the reserve chute of each card feeder and a fan contained in the common transport conduit for advancing fiber material by an air stream to the card feeders and a control arrangement for varying the flow rate of the fiber material in the common transport conduit as a function of at least one operational parameter of the installation.

Abstract: In a chute feed apparatus for carding engines, cards and like machines, there is disclosed means for changing the widthwise configuration of sheet material being fed and exiting the apparatus by changing the deformation of a constituent wall of the delivery chute shaftway. This wall has a deformable member and displacement devices and holding members which deform the wall's shaftway contours responsive to the density or thickness of the sheet material exiting so as to provide sheet material with a desired contour widthwise.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a web having a predetermined grammage profile in its transverse direction is provided. The method includes the steps of introducing a flow of particulate material into the distribution chamber of a forming head through an oscillating nozzle and depositing the material on an air permeable belt to form a web while changes in the upper surface of the web are detected downstream of the distribution chamber, signals are generated in response to any change which are compared with predetermined set points, and an output control signal is generated as a result of the comparison. The pattern of movement of the nozzle is controlled in response to the output control signal to provide the predetermined grammage profile for the web. In addition, the speed of the web may be measured and used to control the frequency of the nozzle so that a web having uniform grammage in the longitudinal direction is also provided.

Abstract: A control system and method for controlling the rate (Y) of fiber input (24) into a delivery system (28) in response to sensed fiber quantity (56) is disclosed. The control system generates a step control signal (C,D) in response to first deviations about a prescribed fiber quantity condition (1 or 1,2). Deviations of small magnitude caused by various fiber delivery conditions, i.e. fiber opening, duct friction, etc., are taken into account without overreacting to the variation. In response to deviations outside the range of the first deviations, an integrated ramp signal (E, F or 128, 124) is produced which automatically seeks a new level of fiber input rate. Such deviations are normally caused by changes in system requirements such as the changing consumption and production requirements of an associated carding machine (48) to which fibers are fed from a chute feed (42).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a web having a predetermined grammage profile in its transverse direction is provided. The method includes the steps of introducing a composite flow of particulate material suspended in air into the distribution chamber of a forming head and depositing the material on the upper surface of an air permeable belt while applying suction to form a web and while the grammage profile is controlled by measuring the profile of the web downstream of the distribution chamber, comparing the measurement with predetermined set points, generating a control signal representative of any detected difference and controlling the amount of suction applied in predetermined suction sections in response to the control signal so as to provide a web having a predetermined grammage profile. An apparatus for accomplishing each of the steps of the method is also provided.

Abstract: In order to extract fiber flocks from individual textile fiber bale groups with a substantially constant extraction power independently of density variation distribution over the bale height, the individual bale groups are subdivided into a plurality of height zones exhibiting different densities of fiber material. Then, an extracting member provided with a rotating extraction head is moved through the upper zone with a relatively large penetration depth, while the penetration depth is gradually reduced during the movement of the extracting member through the next lower zone until the penetration depth desired for the next following lower zone is reached, from which point this penetration depth is maintained until reaching the lowermost zone during the movement through which the penetration depth is again gradually increased until the last layer to be extracted is reached.

Abstract: An arrangement for continuously determining the density of an elongated strip-shaped web of fiber sliver in the course of a spinning process in order to generate control signals for use in controlling the operation of machine elements operative for equalizing the distribution of the fiber sliver includes two of stepped rollers which together delimit, at a their nip region, a confining space for the passage of the fiber sliver web therethrough. One of the rollers is mounted on a support for rotation about a stationary axis and is driven in rotation, while the other roller is mounted on the support for free rotation about another axis which is parallel to the stationary axis and defines an imaginary plane therewith, as well as for movement along the imaginary plane against a spring force away from the one roller, so that the fiber sliver is compressed and moves the other roller to a greater or lesser degree away from the one roller as it passes through the confining space, depending on its density.

Abstract: In a webformer including a chute for feeding a web of fibers to subsequent equipment the improvement comprising an air deflector plate for controlling the amount of air that can be exuded from substantially all areas of a perforated wall.

Abstract: A fibre metering arrangement comprises a supply conveyor carrying fibre to a weighplate, and a nip roller arrangement removing the fibre from the weighplate, and being sufficiently spaced from the weighplate so as not to cause the fibre to accumulate over the weighplate. If the gap is such that some fleece might sag, a bridging plate or a take-off conveyor can be inserted. Preferably, there is a draft between the supply conveyor and the take-off conveyor or nip rollers.

Abstract: An apparatus as disclosed for controlling the distribution of fibers in a fiber felt forming process, which comprises a guide duct through which a gas current with felt fibers entrained is directed. The gas passes through a perforated conveyor, which retains the fibers.The duct is caused to oscillate by a connecting rod affixed to the guide duct and a rotary element by universal joints at either end, connection being effected by cardans, by which the rotary element entrains the connecting rod in its rotary movement. By moving the axis of rotation of the rotary element away from the center of the guide duct/connecting rod joint, an oscillating movement is imparted to the guide duct. The entire apparatus, including a motor for inducing rotary movement may be caused to undergo translational movement by a pair of opposed hydraulic jacks, the operation of which may alter the median direction of the movement of the oscillating guide duct.

Abstract: A method of regulating fiber quantities supplied to a fiber processing machine of a fiber processing line. The latter includes a fiber storing apparatus connected downstream of the fiber processing machine and receives processed fiber therefrom. The fiber processing machine includes a feed roller supplying fiber thereto. The method comprises the following steps: continuously rotating the feed roller by a regulatable drive during operation of the fiber processing line; generating a measuring value representing momentary fiber quantities in the storing apparatus; generating an analog electric signal representing the measuring value; and applying the analog electric signal to the regulatable drive of the feed roller for varying the rpm thereof as a function of the fiber quantity in the storing apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic control system for a machine which forms fiber material into a length of silver which is delivered into a storage can, and which includes a carding cylinder, a feed roller for supplying fiber material to the cylinder, a doffer for removing a web of carded fibers from the cylinder and means for removing the carded fibers from the doffer and forming them into the length of fibers. The system includes monitoring devices for monitoring the operation of the machine, controllable regulator devices connected for controlling the operating speed of at least one of the doffer and feed roller, and a microcomputer connected to the monitoring devices and the regulator means for controlling the regulator devices.

Abstract: Carder for manufacturing non-woven formed fabric from fibrous substances comprising a plurality of principal rollers and workers and clearers working with said principal rollers, comprising a draw-in roller (1) and a licker-in (2) running in the same direction and with high drawing, comprising a first principal roller (3) running in a direction opposite the licker-in (2) and with low drawing, comprising at least one pair of rollers consisting of a worker (4) and a clearer (5) cooperating with said first principal roller (3), and comprising a first matting roller (8) running in the same direction as said first principal roller (3) and with low crushing or with low drawing, whereby the draw-in roller (1), the licker-in (2), the principal rollers (3, 9), the matting rollers (8, 12), the doffing cylinders (13, 18) and the second crushing cylinders (15, 20) are driven by respectively separate, independently controllable motors such that a change of the speed of the principal roller (3) effects a change of the spee

Abstract: An apparatus for making a web of fibers has an upright and horizontally elongated supply duct having an upper end, an open lower end, and a foraminous side wall. Fibers are fed to the upper end of the supply duct so that they descend in this duct as a ribbon-shaped web. An upright and horizontally elongated forming duct has an upper end receiving the fiber web from the supply duct, a lower end, and a foraminous side wall. Gas is made to flow down in the ducts and through the foraminous side walls thereof to shape the web and advance it to the respective lower ends. Rollers are provided at the lower end of the forming duct for withdrawing the web therefrom. One or more sensors measure the thickness of the web at a plurality of sensing locations spaced transversely along the web downstream of the lower end of the forming duct. Respective individually operable flow-adjusting means can vary the gas flow in one of the ducts at respective zones spaced transversely across the web like the sensing locations.

Abstract: A draw frame of a sliver-drafting apparatus has three cascaded roller pairs whose lower rollers are driven by respective motors at speeds determined by associated frequency dividers and/or multipliers in the output of a common oscillator of adjustable operating frequency. The slivers drafted by the roller pairs form, after doubling or plying, a fiber bundle traversing a thickness sensor whose output, integrated over predetermined time periods, is used by a microcomputer to ascertain optimum nip-line spacings and contact pressures reducing the thickness variations to a minimum.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing textile materials and, in particular, controlling the density of fiber in a carding system. A fiber feeder is provided which includes a blower and an oscillating plate, both of which act to compress fiber collected in the chute of the fiber feeder. A first sensing device is utilized at the discharge of the fiber feeder to sense the density of the batt being fed therefrom to a card, and a second sensing device is utilized at the trumpet of the card to sense the density of the fiber which forms the sliver in such trumpet. Control means is provided to regulate the operating speed of the blower and the oscillating plate in response to the signals generated by the first and second sensing devices.

Abstract: An apparatus for regulating fiber quantities supplied to a textile machine as a fiber layer, comprises a sensor device for mechanically sensing thickness variations of the fiber layer at a plurality of locations along the layer width and emitting individual mechanical signals representing the magnitude of thickness variations at each location, a transducer arrangement connected to the sensor device for converting each individual mechanical signal into an individual electric signal, a signal adder connected to the transducer arrangement for combining the individual signals into a joint electric signal, a regulator arrangement connected to the signal adder for comparing the joint electric signal representing an actual value with a predetermined desired value of fiber layer thickness for generating a setting signal, a fiber layer delivery device, and a setting device connected to the regulator arrangement and the fiber layer delivery device for controlling the setting device by the setting signals, whereby fiber

Abstract: Apparatus for forming fiber material into a length of sliver.

Abstract: A draw frame of a sliver-drafting apparatus has three cascaded roller pairs whose lower rollers are driven by respective motors at speeds determined by associated frequency dividers and/or multipliers in the output of a common oscillator of adjustable operating frequency. The slivers drafted by the roller pairs form, after doubling or plying, a fiber bundle traversing a thickness sensor whose output, integrated over predetermined time periods, is used by a microcomputer to ascertain optimum nip-line spacings and contact pressures reducing the thickness variations to a minimum.

Abstract: A device for indicating the triggering of a signal transducer in, for example, thread surveillance and monitoring systems.

Abstract: A regulation of the density of the fibre clothing on cards, carding engines and the like is described which is based on measuring the torque which has to be used for the drive of the licker-in or the cylinder. The signal corresponding to this torque is compared with a desired value which is either arbitrarily adjustable or is obtained from a sliver count measuring member or constitutes a combination of the two.The torque is either measured by measuring the power consumption for the drive of the licker-in and/or the cylinder, or by measuring the torsion of a torsion shaft, or by measuring the slip occurring in a variable coupling.