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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1998
Ferdinand Leifeld, Kempen, DE;
Armin Leder, Monchengladbach, DE;
Trutzschler GmbH & Co. KG, Monchengladbach, DE;
Abstract
A roll for advancing fiber material has a roll surface provided with a sawtooth clothing which includes a plurality of teeth separated from one another by respective tooth gaps each having a gap bottom. Each tooth has a frontal flank oriented in a direction of roll rotation and a tooth point. Each tooth having a tooth height h.sub.2 measured from the roll surface to the tooth point and a tooth gap height h.sub.3 measured from the tooth gap bottom to the tooth point. The tooth height h.sub.2 and the tooth gap height h.sub.3 are small for defining a small fill volume between teeth. Each tooth has a back angle .gamma. having a magnitude of at least approximately 90.degree. and further has a large tooth division t and a large pitch P for defining a large open space about the teeth.