Process and device for pneumatic introduction of fibers into a spinning machine

US5343686A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rieter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AG · DE

Inventors

• Thorsten Buchner · Abensberg, DE
• Michael Ueding · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 1992
• Grant date: Sep 6, 1994
• Expiry date: Aug 5, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D01H9/008
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for introducing a fiber sliver into a fiber processing machine which has an openable sliver feeding device and a sliver introduction funnel and a sliver injector, comprising the following steps: opening the openable sliver feeding device, grasping the leading end of the sliver pneumatically into and through the sliver introduction funnel and into the opened feeding device and closing the sliver feeding device on the sliver. The invention also includes a device for carrying out the process.