Method and apparatus for coiling fiber sliver

摘要

A method of depositing sliver in a can by a sliver coiler having a rotating coiler head provided with an outlet opening travelling in a circular path, comprises the following steps: discharging sliver from the outlet opening during rotation of the coiler head; introducing sliver from the outlet opening immediately into a stationary annular chamber which can hold at least two superposed sliver coils and which is aligned with the circular path and which further has an open top oriented towards the outlet opening and an open bottom oriented away from the outlet opening; compressing the sliver in the annular chamber upon introduction therein and ejecting a lowermost sliver coil from the annular chamber through the bottom thereof by the pressure of a superposed compressed sliver coil dwelling in the annular chamber.