Patent ID: 8769785

Claim:
A method for the simultaneous, parallel production of crimped fibre strips in a crimping machine with an inlet region, a squeezing zone formed between two transport rollers and a compression channel, having the method steps: a) simultaneously feeding a plurality of fibre strips in parallel via the inlet region, the fibre strips being guided separately in the inlet region using a first separating mechanism, b) simultaneous, parallel transportation and compression of the fibre strips in the squeezing zone by means of the two transport rollers and c) simultaneous, parallel crimping of the fibre strips in the compression channel, wherein the fibre strips in method step b) using a second separating mechanism and, in method step c) using a third separating mechanism, are in each case guided separately, the first, second and third separating mechanism being configured such that the parallel separate guidance of the fibre strips from the inlet region through the squeezing zone into the compression channel takes place free of interruption.