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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1981
Amos S Clark, Jr, Lewisville, NC (US);
James R McMordie, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Michael D Walker, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
The Bahnson Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
An improved cleaning apparatus for textile machines, of the type that includes overhead trackways and cleaner units propelled along the trackways, is provided with an arrangement for automatically removing accumulated lint from the cleaner units while cleaner units are moving along the trackways. During cleaning of the textile machines, lint is stripped from lint-laden intake air by conical screens respectively associated with the depending suction tubes of the cleaner unit. Hinged doors are arranged above and below each conical lint-stripping screen, and all four of these doors are opened at a lint collection station so that the accumulated lint may be rapidly withdrawn from the smaller ends of the screens directly into suction hoods. Mechanical door-actuating mechanisms are provided so that the cleaner unit is automatically doffed when moving in one direction through the lint removal station and so that the cleaner unit can, dependent on the desired trackway configuration, be driven in the opposite direction through the lint removal station without necessarily opening the doors.