Patent ID: 6393665
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
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 pair of confronting dispersers, each having an input side and an output side, said output sides facing each other on opposite sides of a mixing zone; a feed conveyor for each disperser, each positioned to feed cotton modules into the input side of its disperser; and an outfeed conveyor between the two dispersers, at the bottom of the mixing zone, wherein the feed conveyors are positioned to move textile fiber modules to the dispersers, each disperser removes fiber clumps from its module and discharges them into the mixing zone into admixture with fiber clumps entering the mixing zone airborne from the other disperser, and the mixed blend of fiber clumps falls on the outfeed conveyor and the outfeed conveyor carries the blend of fiber clumps away from the mixing zone.