RECIPROCATING TWISTER PIPE CLEANER MACHINE

摘要

A machine for the continuous production of pipe cleaners includes first and second carriage members slidably mounted on a frame and adapted to be reciprocated between a first position wherein the carriages are located at opposite ends of the frame and a second position wherein the carriages are located adjacent each other and has chuck members thereon for gripping the pipe cleaner components in accordance with the respective positions of the carriages and mounted for rotation on the carriages whereby the wires of the pipe cleaners are twisted about each other to lock short cotton fibrils therebetween and advance the pipe cleaner strand through the machine.