Patent ID: 7823257

Claim:
An apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, the apparatus comprising: a fibre-sorting device; a supply device adapted to supply the fibre bundle to the fibre-sorting device; and at least one mechanical device adapted to generate a combing action in order to loosen and remove non-clamped constituents from the fibre bundle; wherein the fibre-sorting device comprises: a first roller and a second roller arranged downstream of the supply device, wherein, in use, the first roller and second roller rotate rapidly without interruption, first clamping elements distributed spaced apart in a peripheral region of the first roller, one or more first counter-elements cooperating with the first clamping elements, the one or more first counter-elements located opposite to the first roller and the peripheral region of the first roller, second clamping elements distributed spaced apart in a peripheral region of the second roller, and one or more second counter-elements cooperating with the second clamping elements, the one or more second counter elements arranged on or inside the first roller.