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Apparatus for producing bristle arrangements for brushes

US9192227B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Zahoransky AG · DE

Inventors

Bernd Stein · San Diego, US
Bernhard Rees · Aitern, DE
Ingo Kumpf · Todtnau, DE
Florian Kiefer · Goslar, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 18, 2011
Grant date	Nov 24, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 3, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA46D3/04
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus (1) for producing bristle arrangements for brushes, in particular toothbrushes, having a bristle supply (2) and an apparatus (3) for extracting individual bundles (4) of bristles from the bristle supply (2), and also having a transporting apparatus for transporting the bundles (4) of bristles by way of at least one hollow line (8) by means of a stream of gas or air in perforations in a bundle-retaining plate, is characterized in that the apparatus (3) for extracting the bundles (4) of bristles from the bristle supply (2) has at least one bundle holder (6), and in that the bundle holder(s) (6) of the extraction means (3), the inner contour (10) of the hollow line(s) (8) and the perforations in the bundle-retaining plate are each contoured in a manner corresponding to the bundle contour which is desired in the bristle arrangement.

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