Patent ID: 6880322

Claim:
A disintegrator roll housing of a disintegrator apparatus of an open-end spinning apparatus, said disintegrator roll housing comprising: side walls forming two sides of said disintegrator housing; a circumferential wall disposed between said side walls, said circumferential wall forming at least one side of a feed opening for the feeding of at least one fiber band and forming an exit opening through which fibers from said fiber band are removed from said disintegrator roll housing; and an insert positioned between said sidewalls and after said feed opening in a direction of rotation of a disintegrator roll disposed within said disintegrator roll housing, said insert at least partially forming a contaminant separation opening through which contaminants pass that are separated during disintegration of said fiber band and said insert acting as at least a portion of said circumferential wall between said feed opening and said contaminant separation opening in said direction of rotation of said disintegrator roll.