Patent ID: 7934295

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 at least a first roller and a second roller that rotate rapidly without interruption during use, the first roller and the second roller each having clamping devices that clamp the fibre bundle distributed about their periphery; a supply device adapted to supply a fibre bundle to the fibre sorting device; a mechanical device adapted to generate a combing action in order to loosen and remove non-clamped constitutes from the fibre bundle; a take-off device adapted to remove the combed fibre material from the fibre-sorting device; and at least one adjustment device associated with at least one of said first and second rollers, wherein the at least one adjustment device is adapted to adjust an offset between the clamping devices of the first roller and the second roller.