Method and apparatus for blending textile fibers

摘要

Method and apparatus for blending textile fibers which includes simultaneously depositing a plurality of predetermined fiber loads onto a continuously moving conveyor at spaced locations thereon, providing a suction conduit at the delivery end of such conveyor for accepting the fiber loads and transporting them separately and serially to a receiver unit where the fiber loads are caused to be stacked on top of one another as separate layers on a second conveyor, and then pressing the stacked layers of fiber loads against the second conveyor while operating the second conveyor to feed the stacked layers of fiber loads edgewise against a rotating beater which simultaneously separates portions of fiber from each separate layer in the stack to provide a substantially homogeneous blend of the separated fibers.