Filament stock box and picking apparatus

摘要

This invention relates to new and useful brush and broom manufacturing apparatus which allows the manufacture of a wide variety of different type constructions having pretrimmed synthetic brush tufts fused onto a thermo plastic or foreign substrate whereby the tufted construction is comprised of at least two different types of thermo plastic monofilament, said different tufts being fused simultaneously onto the said substrate. A different stock box is provided for each type of filament. A picking unit with individual pickers for each tuft is also provided. Picker receiving apertures corresponding to the unit are provided in each box, but cut-to-length filament are blocked from the area behind predetermined apertures so that the unit picks tufts only from unblocked apertures.