Improvements in and relating to drawing frames.

摘要

A drafting frame for drafting of textile fibres, having feed means 4 and a pair of drafting rollers (8,8 min ) positioned downstream of the feed means, and an additional "splitting" roller (10) positioned downstream of the nip of the drafting rollers, the "splitting" roller acting with a pair of co-operating rollers (10 min , 10 sec ) to split the fibres after they have been drafted by the drafting rollers. The splitting roller (10) provides a relatively upstream nip with the first of the lower splitting rollers (10 min ) and a relatively downstream nip with the second of the lower splitting rollers (10 sec ).