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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1974
Hidejiro Araki, Toyoake, JA;
Susumu Otani, Obu, JA;
Abstract
In a bale plucking machine wherein a fiber bale is reciprocally displaced between a pair of displacement terminals by a pair of conveyer means disposed with an intervening space therebetween and fiber tufts are continuously plucked from the fiber bale by a plucking roller when the fiber bale passes over the plucking roller, a method and device for supplying a fresh fiber bale on the conveyer means. When the thickness of the processing fiber bale has been reduced to a predetermined limit, the processing fiber bale is displaced to a waiting position formed on an extended portion of one of the conveyer means outside the terminal of the reciprocal displacement thereof, and the conveyer means are stopped. Thereafter a fresh fiber bale is supplied onto the processing fiber bale reserved at the waiting position. During the above-mentioned supply motion, the driving of the conveyer means is again commenced.