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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1976
Cecil S Wise, Dallas, NC (US);
Fiber Controls Corporation, Gastonia, NC (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for supplying textile fibers to each of a plurality of textile blending machines extending in a line and defining a blending line from each of a plurality of fiber bales extending behind each of the machines with an overhead crane mounted for movement vertically and in two horizontal directions by a number of motors, a sensor in the hopper of each machine for providing a demand signal when the level of material in that hopper is less than a predetermined level, and a control circuit for operating the motors to supply material in a set order to each hopper having a sensor providing a demand signal with each hopper receiving fibers from each of the bales extending behind it.