. Textile raw materials and their conversion into yarns : (the study of the raw materials and the technology of the spinning process) a text-book for textile, trade and higher technical schools, as also for self-instruction ; based upon the ordinary syllabus and curriculum of the Imperial and Royal Austrian weaving schools. Fig. 44.—^Vertical Opener and Bale Breaker (vertical section). the mixing-room, the cotton being either conveyed from thedifferent mixing compartments by means of a long latticecreeper working at low speed, or else laid by hand on thefeed creeper, a, where it is compressed
. Textile raw materials and their conversion into yarns : (the study of the raw materials and the technology of the spinning process) a text-book for textile, trade and higher technical schools, as also for self-instruction ; based upon the ordinary syllabus and curriculum of the Imperial and Royal Austrian weaving schools. Fig. 44.—^Vertical Opener and Bale Breaker (vertical section). the mixing-room, the cotton being either conveyed from thedifferent mixing compartments by means of a long latticecreeper working at low speed, or else laid by hand on thefeed creeper, a, where it is compressed by a roller, 6, and iedby the piano-feed, r, to a pair of rollers, d, which hold it withinreach of the opener, a high-speed drum, e, carrying a numberof radial blades of hardened steel, whereby the material isexpelled into a long sheet-metal pipe, /. An exhaust fan, g,(see sectional view, Fig. 46) draws the cotton through this 138 TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS. pipe, which forks in the manner shown and discharges intothe casing surrounding the openers, h, i, which perform thefunctions of the first scutching beater, and open the cottonfurther, delivering it to a pair of dust cages, /, in. From thesethe cotton is carried onward and presented to the action of. Fig. 45.—Exhaust Opener combined with Single Scutcher and Lap Machine(vertical section). the beater, ji. Two sets of dust boxes, k, are provided in thepipe, /, an opportunity being thus afforded for the dust tosettle during the conveyance of the cotton to the exhaustopener; and as these boxes can be emptied separately withoutstopping the machine, the cotton is delivered to the openerfairly free from dust. TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS. 139 A horizontal Crighton opener can also be utilised as anexhaust opener by connecting the feed pipe to the narrow end
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