Device for supporting textile fiber bales during bale breaking

摘要

A bale breaker machine includes a breaker arrangement on which a textile fiber bale is positioned for being opened at its underside, a guiding wall pair formed of two substantially vertically oriented bale guiding wall disposed above the breaker arrangement and spaced from one another to accommodate the textile fiber bale therebetween; and a bale supporting device which includes an insert carried by at least one bale guiding wall at a face thereof oriented to the other bale guiding wall of the guiding wall pair and a displacing arrangement coupled to the insert for moving at least one part of the insert away from the associated bale guiding wall and for urging the insert part into a face-to-face engagement with a side of the textile fiber bale positioned between the bale guiding walls of the guiding wall pair.