Patent ID: 7921518

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 roller that rotate rapidly without interruption during use; 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 first and second nipper arms with clamping jaws including clamping surfaces, wherein at least one of the first and second nipper arms of each clamping device is at least partially resilient.