Apparatus for breaking textile fiber bales

摘要

An apparatus for breaking textile fiber bales includes a plurality of spiked breaker members each rotated in a working direction and spaced from one another in the working direction and a support for receiving a series of juxtapositioned bales in the working direction above the breaker members for exposing the underside of the bales to the breaker members. The support comprises a flexible underlay which extends in the working direction for engaging face-to-face the underside of the bales and which is prevented from displacement in the working direction. An arrangement forms an upwardly open chamber of one part of the flexible underlay. The breaker members are accommodated in the chamber for engaging the underside of the bales situated at least in part within the outline of the chamber opening. The chamber and the breaker members are moved as a unit in the working direction along the bales.