Patent ID: 6434794
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: D01G

Abstract:
Apparatus for dispersing textile fiber clumps from a plurality of textile fiber modules and then mixing the clumps to form a blend, comprising:a first pair of confronting dispersers, each having an input side and an output side, said output sides facing each other on opposite sides of a first mixing zone; a second pair of confronting dispersers, each having an input side and an output side, said output sides facing each other on opposite sides of a second mixing zone; an infeed conveyor for each disperser, each positioned to feed textile fiber modules into the input side of its disperser; a separate outfeed conveyor for each pair of dispersers positioned in the mixing zone of the disperser; a blend conveyor positioned to receive fiber clumps from the outfeed conveyors, wherein the infeed conveyors move textile fiber modules to the dispersers, each disperser removes textile fiber clumps from its module and discharges them airborne into its mixing zone into admixture with textile fiber clumps entering airborne in the mixing chamber from the disperser on the other side of said mixing zone, and wherein the mixed blends of textile fiber clumps fall onto the outfeed conveyors and the outfeed conveyors carry the blends of textile fiber clumps away from the dispersers to the blend conveyor.