APPAREIL POUR LE TRAITEMENT D'UNE MASSE DE MATIERES FIBREUSES

摘要

Apparatus for separating successive leading portions of tobacco rag from a fleece thereof on a horizontal imperforate conveyor wherein a separator device, which comprises two forks facing one another across the conveyor which are retractable together and are relatively separable in the direction of the conveyor to tear a leading portion away from the fleece, is arranged to operate above the conveyor and is movable around a circular path in a vertical plane, the forks being retracted together prior to their descending entry into the fleece.