Improvements in or relating to the production of staple fibre from continuous filaments

摘要

1,010,729. Stapling filaments. IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. July 17, 1964 [Aug 6, 1963], No. 30975/63. Heading D1F. Apparatus for the production of staple fibres from continuous filaments comprises cutting means 21 associated with a filament supporting former 1 of substantially round section at one end 2 with its surface altering gradually along its length to a substantially horizontal flat section at the other end 3. Pulleys 16-18 are rotated about the end 2 by shafts to lay the tow around the former. A plurality of pegs 10 are mounted on a canded non- rotating ring 9. Fig. 1 (not shown), also mounted on shaft 5 to reciprocate the pegs in slots 11 to advance the tow to belt 19 which feeds the tow to the cutting blade and the staple fibres to end 3. One of the pegs 10 has bearings moving in guides so as to prevent the other pegs from contacting the sides of the slots.