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Arrangement for cleaning the flats in a revolving flats card

US4771514A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 28, 1987
Grant dateSep 20, 1988
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Expiry dateMay 28, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD01G15/785
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A cleaning apparatus or arrangement for cleaning a set of flats of a revolving flats card has a pivotable brush for engaging the strips or strip accumulations of the flats and a suction device arranged behind or downstream of the pivotable brush considered with respect to the direction of movement of the flats. According to the invention, a suction nozzle of the suction device is reciprocable over the length or transverse extent of the flats. By means of this arrangement, there is obtained a suction action affording a great cleaning or stripping effect at the flats despite a considerable reduction in the energy required to create the suction action in comparison with heretofore known flat cleaning or stripper arrangements.

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