Patent ID: 7941899

Claim:
An apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, the apparatus comprising: at least one fibre sorting device comprising at least two first high-speed rollers and a second high-speed roller that rotate rapidly without interruption during use; clamping devices distributed about the periphery of the first rollers and the second roller, each clamping device adapted to clamp a bundle of the textile fibres at a clamping site located at a distance from a free end of the fibre bundle; at least one supply device adapted to supply the fibre bundle to the fibre-sorting device, the supply device comprising a feed roller associated with each of the at least two first high speed rollers; at least one take-off device adapted to remove the sorted fibre material from the fibre-sorting device; and at least one mechanical combing device adapted to comb the fibre bundle from the clamping site to the free end in order to loosen and remove non-clamped constituents.