EP1241285A1 - Dispositif de traitement de fibres dans une carde - Google Patents

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EP1241285A1
EP1241285A1 EP02005885A EP02005885A EP1241285A1 EP 1241285 A1 EP1241285 A1 EP 1241285A1 EP 02005885 A EP02005885 A EP 02005885A EP 02005885 A EP02005885 A EP 02005885A EP 1241285 A1 EP1241285 A1 EP 1241285A1
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01G—PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF FIBRES, e.g. FOR SPINNING
    • D01G15/00—Carding machines or accessories; Card clothing; Burr-crushing or removing arrangements associated with carding or other preliminary-treatment machines
    • D01G15/02—Carding machines
    • D01G15/12—Details
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01G—PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF FIBRES, e.g. FOR SPINNING
    • D01G15/00—Carding machines or accessories; Card clothing; Burr-crushing or removing arrangements associated with carding or other preliminary-treatment machines
    • D01G15/02—Carding machines
    • D01G15/12—Details
    • D01G15/14—Constructional features of carding elements, e.g. for facilitating attachment of card clothing
    • D01G15/24—Flats or like members
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01G—PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF FIBRES, e.g. FOR SPINNING
    • D01G15/00—Carding machines or accessories; Card clothing; Burr-crushing or removing arrangements associated with carding or other preliminary-treatment machines
    • D01G15/02—Carding machines
    • D01G15/12—Details
    • D01G15/14—Constructional features of carding elements, e.g. for facilitating attachment of card clothing
    • D01G15/20—Feed rollers; Takers-in
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01G—PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF FIBRES, e.g. FOR SPINNING
    • D01G15/00—Carding machines or accessories; Card clothing; Burr-crushing or removing arrangements associated with carding or other preliminary-treatment machines
    • D01G15/84—Card clothing; Manufacture thereof not otherwise provided for

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  • the invention relates to a device for processing textile fibers with a and having a substantially cylindrical cylindrical first machining surface preferably processing element rotatable about the cylinder axis, such as a lickerin roller a card, and at least one facing the first processing surface further processing surface carding element, one for producing a Such a suitable carding element and for producing these carding elements usable carrier elements and sawtooth wire strips.
  • Devices of the type described at the outset are, for example, in the form of Pre-dissolving sections for producing a non-woven fabric with uniformly aligned Fibers made of a fibrous material with non-uniform fiber orientation suitable cards or carding used.
  • the function of such cards or cards is shown below explained with reference to Figures 3 to 5.
  • 3 shows a schematic illustration the basic structure of a card or card. After that, the card shows one in total designated 12 feed channel for feeding the existing of disordered fibers Fiber material to a pre-dissolving section 20. With this pre-resolution section 20, the fiber material is presented to the reel 30 of the card. With this drum it is a roller with a tick and / or on its outer surface Sawtooth all-steel set is provided.
  • the reel When operating the card, the reel turns around its roller axis rotated.
  • the fiber orientation are circumferential over the surface of the drum distributed flat bars 32 used. These flat bars have one in one Working position of the outer surface of the drum facing work surface, which also can be formed in the form of a tick and / or sawtooth all-steel set.
  • the flat bars can either be arranged stationary or in one of the Direction of rotation of the reel can be moved in the opposite direction.
  • the nonwoven is removed with a take-off roller 14 and further processing fed.
  • the pre-dissolving section serves on the one hand a controlled feeding of the disordered fiber material to the drum and on the other hand, an even distribution of the fiber material over the entire axial Length of the reel.
  • FIG. 4 shows a detailed representation of this pre-resolution section 20.
  • the one in this figure shown pre-dissolving section 20 a total of 3 licker-in rollers 22, 24 and 26 are provided, around the roller axes 22a in the directions indicated by arrows A. 24a and 26a are rotatable.
  • Each of the licker-in rollers 22, 24 and 26 has a cylindrical cylindrical shape Processing area on which with a tick and / or sawtooth all-steel set can be equipped.
  • the individual Licker-in rollers 22, 24 and 26 also include so-called fixed carding elements 23, 25 and 27 assign to achieve a better fiber distribution.
  • FIG. 5 The arrangement of these fixed carding elements is exemplified in FIG. 5 for the fixed carding element 27.
  • FIG. 5a shows a section along a perpendicular to the roller axis 26a Section plane
  • Fig. 5b is a plan view of the fixed carding element 27.
  • the fixed carding element 27 consists essentially of a carrier element 27a and sawtooth wire sections 27b fixed on this carrier element 27a.
  • sawtooth wire sections 27b run approximately tangentially to that also with a Sawtooth all-steel clothing equipped outer surface of the lickerin roller 26.
  • the fixed carding element has a plurality of juxtaposed and sawtooth wire sections fixed on the carrier element 27a.
  • the invention is based on the object to provide a device of the type described above, with which also high working speeds an even fiber distribution in that of a card or card removed fiber fleece can be achieved, as well as a for production to specify a suitable carding element of such a device and suitable carrier elements and to provide sawtooth wire strips for such a carding element.
  • this object is achieved by developing the known devices solved, which is essentially characterized in that the shape of the other Processing area of the carding element that of the substantially circular cylindrical shell first processing surface of the processing element, such as the Roughing roll, approximated in a cutting plane perpendicular to the cylinder axis is.
  • This invention is based on the knowledge that the uneven distribution of the fibers in the nonwoven fabric removed from the reel by the take-off roller their cause can already be found in fiber processing in the area of the pre-dissolving section because by the tangential approach of the processing surface of the fixed carding elements to the corresponding roller sets only a very narrow zone is available, in which an effective fiber spreading takes place, so that the distribution of the resulting Fibers are not always sufficient.
  • the device becomes the zone in which an effective fiber spreading takes place can, increased in that the processing area of the carding elements with respect to their Shape is approximated to the cylindrical-cylindrical machining surface of the rollers, in order to achieve a better fiber distribution overall. It has been shown that which by approximating the shape of the processing surface of the carding elements to the Circular cylinder jacket shape caused air turbulence in the area of the effective Fiber spreading in view of the improvement achieved by enlarging this zone can easily be accepted.
  • two or more fiber spreading zones can be provided in order to achieve an overall enlargement of the zone of effective fiber spreading, wherein the approximation of the processing surface of the carding element to the circular cylindrical shell Machining area in each of these zones is approximately punctiform takes place, whereby the air turbulence caused by this approach is particularly special can be kept low.
  • two become effective Fiber spreading zones provided that the processing surface of the carding element with two at an obtuse angle in a section plane perpendicular to the cylinder axis including polygon sections.
  • the processing surface in the form of a cylindrical cylinder and / or the further processing surface the carding element may be formed by one or more sawtooth wire sections, the further processing surface of the carding element expediently by a plurality of saw tooth wire sections arranged side by side is formed.
  • the further processing surface of the carding elements the device according to the invention without increasing the number of sawtooth wire strips compared to that for the production of conventional carding elements required number of sawtooth wire strips can be realized if at least one of the sawtooth wire sections 2 which form the further machining surface form a blunt one Includes segments enclosing angles.
  • the device according to the invention can be used, for example, in a pre-dissolving section in which the carding element fixed with respect to the possibly rotatable processing element in the form of a lickerin roller is arranged.
  • the processing element is the reel of a card
  • the carding element is a flat rod which may be designed as a revolving flat.
  • a carding element according to the invention has at least one processing surface and is essentially characterized in that this processing surface is a concave, has an approximate shape to a circular cylinder surface, this machining surface two or more each in a perpendicular to the cylinder axis Cutting plane an obtuse angle of 160 ° to 170 °, preferably about 165 ° with each other can have enclosing polygon sections.
  • the invention comprises Carding element expediently a rigid or flexible scraper segment, which forms the processing surface and on a carrier element of the carding element is set.
  • the scratch segments of the carding element according to the invention can at least one sawtooth wire section with two preferably an obtuse angle about 160 ° to 170 °, particularly preferably about 165 °, including one another
  • the Carrier element can have a V, W or multi-W-shaped basic shape.
  • the carrier element suitable for the production thereof is essentially characterized in that that there are two contact surfaces enclosing an obtuse angle for the Has scratch segment.
  • a suitable for the production of carding elements according to the invention Sawtooth wire section is essentially characterized in that it has two has an obtuse angle enclosing segments, with between these segments, a connecting segment with a kink without tooth design can be provided.
  • FIG. 1 shows a device 100 according to the invention as part of a pre-resolution section a teasel.
  • 1a shows a sectional view in a perpendicular to the axis of a Lancing roller running section plane and
  • Fig. 1b is a plan view of that in Fig. 1a carding element shown.
  • the device comprises a lickerin roller 110, of which only a section of the machining surface in the form of a cylindrical cylinder is shown is and a carding element.
  • the carding element comprises a carrier element 120 and a plurality of sawtooth wire strips 130 arranged side by side Arrangement of the sawtooth wire strips particularly clearly in the top view according to Fig. 1b recognizable.
  • the sawtooth wire sections 130 are at an obtuse angle to one another including segments 132 and 134, which over a connecting segment 136 are interconnected.
  • the connecting segment 136 has one of the blunt Corresponding kink on and is carried out without saw teeth, so the kink formation to facilitate.
  • the carrier element 120 comprises two contact surfaces 122 and 124 for the segments 132 and 134. These contact surfaces are each flat and close one of the The shape of the sawtooth wire sections corresponds to obtuse angles with one another on. Between the support surfaces 122 and 124 is a recess 126 for receiving the kinked connecting segment 136 is provided. Overall, the carrier element 120 a W-shaped basic shape. The recess 126 becomes on the sawtooth wire section 130 facing away from a web 137. On the sawtooth wire sections 130 opposite side of the web 137 is another after opening opening at the bottom with a T-shaped cross section provided for receiving a complementary fastener is used.
  • two fiber spreading zones are 140 and 150 between the set of the lickerin roller 110 and the fixed carding element educated.
  • FIG. 2 shows a detailed illustration of the sawtooth wire sections 130 according to FIG. 1.
  • 2a shows a side view of these sawtooth wire sections
  • FIG. 2b a sectional view along the section plane A-A in Fig. 2a.
  • illustrated embodiment of the invention includes the extension of the segment 132 with the segment 134 an angle ⁇ of approximately 15 °. That means the segments 132 and 134 form an angle ⁇ of approximately 165 ° with one another.
  • the angle ⁇ of 15 ° is used for licker-in diameters of approx. 180 mm. For larger roughing diameter a much smaller angle can be used.
  • each of the segments 132 and 134 has a number of saw teeth 138 arranged one behind the other, while the connecting segment 136 is designed without saw teeth.
  • the sawtooth wire portion 130 has a base portion 130a and a blade portion 130b, the saw teeth being made within the blade portion 130b.
  • the foot section 130a has a greater width than the sheet section 130b. Therefore is in a dense system of several sawtooth wires that shown in Fig. 2 Formed between the leaf sections 130b a clothing alley.
  • the invention is not based on the exemplary embodiments explained with reference to the drawing limited. Rather, it is also on the one side of carding elements with V or Multi-W-shaped Basic shape thought. Finally, there is a polygonal course of the processing surface of the carding element with more than two polygon sections.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Preliminary Treatment Of Fibers (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Chemical Or Physical Treatment Of Fibers (AREA)
  • Yarns And Mechanical Finishing Of Yarns Or Ropes (AREA)
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DE10318968A1 (de) 2003-04-26 2004-11-11 Trützschler GmbH & Co KG Vorrichtung an einer Karde, bei der einer Walze, z.B. Trommel, mindestens ein ortsfestes Kardiersegment aus einem Träger mit mindestens zwei Kardierelementen zugeordnet ist
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TW580528B (en) 2004-03-21
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JP2002309451A (ja) 2002-10-23
KR20020082745A (ko) 2002-10-31
ATE332991T1 (de) 2006-08-15
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MXPA02002717A (es) 2004-11-12
BR0200784A (pt) 2003-01-21
DE50207462D1 (de) 2006-08-24
CA2376618A1 (fr) 2002-09-14
CN1375582A (zh) 2002-10-23
ES2266329T3 (es) 2007-03-01

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