摘要 |
A textile machine segment including a first or main roller ( 12 ) adapted to support and convey a travelling fibre web, associated second ( 16 ) and third ( 14 ) rollers cooperable with each other and at respective nips ( 24, 25 ) with the first roller as the three rollers rotate, to open the web and detach a mat of fibre tufts at the nip ( 25 ) between the first and second rollers and to return the tufts to the first roller at the nip ( 24 ) between the first and third rollers, and drive means ( 100 ) for rotating the rollers, wherein the drive means is arranged to rotate the second roller in a rotational direction that is the same as that of the first roller and opposite that of the third roller.
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