摘要 |
Drafting device (10) for use in spinning machinery and for drafting discontinuous fibers, such as cotton, linen, wool, jute, ramie, hemp or man-made fibers, with a pair of feed rollers (2), a pair of draft rollers (3), a pair of control rollers (4) and a pair of delivery rollers (5), being arranged in this order in a rove feed direction (F) defining a drafting zone (D) composed of three sub-drafting zones (A, B, C), whereby the rollers (2, 3, 4) are driven at a respective predetermined speed in such a manner that a drafting action is exerted on the rove (1), wherein said control rollers (4) are both provided with an active drive mechanism and said control rollers (4) are mounted in a fixed but contact-free manner with a defmed control gap (6) between them of a predetermined dimension. |