Patent ID: 7946000

Claim:
An apparatus for the fiber-sorting or fiber-selection of a fiber bundle comprising textile fibres, the apparatus comprising: a fiber-sorting device comprising at least a first roller and a second roller that rotate rapidly without interruption during use, at least one of the first and second rollers including clamping devices distributed about its periphery, the clamping devices adapted to clamp the fiber bundle; a supply device adapted to supply the fiber bundle to the fiber-sorting device; a mechanical combing device that generates a combing action in order to loosen and remove non-clamped constituents from the fiber bundle; a take-off device adapted to remove the combed fiber material from the fiber-sorting device, the take-off device comprising a sliver-forming element adapted to form a combed sliver; and a drafting system having an inlet and an outlet; wherein the sliver-forming element is located at the inlet of the drafting system, and the combed sliver formed by the sliver-forming element is supplied directly to the drafting system.