Patent ID: 7921519

Claim:
An apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, the apparatus comprising: a fibre sorting device comprising a first roller and a second roller that rotate rapidly without interruption during use, wherein the first roller and the second roller rotate in opposite directions; clamping devices distributed about the periphery of the first roller 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; a supply device adapted to supply the fibre bundle to the fibre-sorting device; at least one mechanical device adapted to generate a combing action from the clamping site to the free end of the fibre bundle in order to loosen and remove non-clamped constituents; and a take-off device; wherein each clamping device comprises a pair of nippers, the nippers being movable in relation to one another and separately drivable.