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Method and apparatus for controlling the sliver-thickness variation in a carding machine

US4099297A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 3, 1976
Grant dateJul 11, 1978
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Expiry dateSep 3, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD01G23/06
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling the sliver thickness variation in a carding machine. The thickness variation of the sliver delivered from the carding machine is measured and an electrical signal corresponding to the thickness variation of the carded sliver is issued. A difference signal is created by comparing the above-mentioned electric signal, and a control pulse signal in accordance with the difference signal is intermittently created at predetermined time intervals, each of said time intervals being shorter than a time required for a length of the carded sliver which length corresponds to a long term variation of the carded slivers thickness. The supply amount of fiber tufts to the carding machine is intermittently adjusted for reducing the above-mentioned control signal toward zero by said control pulse signal at each of said time intervals.

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