Apparatus for manufacturing slivers or yarns from glass filaments or the like

Claim 1

IN AN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SLIVERS COMPOSED OF STAPLE FIBERS MADE OF GLASS OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, IN COMBINATION, A ROTARY DRAWING DRUM FOR RECEIVING FILAMENTS AT ONE SIDE OF SAID DRUM AND DRAWING SAID FILAMENTS WHILE THEY PASS AROUND SAID DRUM TO AN OPPOSITE SIDE THEREOF; BLADE MEANS HAVING AND EDGE CLOSELY ADJACENT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID DRUM FOR TRANSFORMING SAID FILAMENTS INTO FIBERS; A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED HOLLOW GUIDES AXIALLY DISTRIBUTED ALONG SAID DRUM AND RESPECTIVELY HAVING OPEN ENDS DIRECTED TOWARD SAID OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID DRUM FOR RECEIVING FIBERS THEREFROM, SO THAT FIBERS FROM PREDETERMINED PORTIONS OF SAID DRUM WILL RESPECTIVELY ENTER INTO SAID HOLLOW GUIDES; A PLURALITY OF SPINNING TUBES RESPECTIVELEY COMMUNICATING WITH SAID GUIDES FOR RECEIVING THE FIBERS THEREFROM; A PLURALITY OF PERFORATED AIR TUBES RESPECTIVELY CONNECTED TO AND FORMING EXTENSIONS OF SAID SPINNING TUBES AND COMMUNICATING WITH THE INTERIORS THEREOF; AND A PARTITION LOCATED IN A PLANE NORMAL TO THE AXIS OF SAID DRUM AND FORMED WITH OPENINGS THROUGH WHICH SAID SPINNING TUBES AND SAID AIR TUBES CONNECTED THERETO PASS SUPPORTED BY SAID PARTITION, SAID PARTITION BEING LOCATED AT THE JUNCTIONS BETWEEN SAID SPINNING AND AIR TUBES, THE SPINING TUBE OF A FIRST COMMUNICATING SPINNING AND AIR TUBE BEING LOCATED ON ONE SIDE OF SAID PARTITION AND THE AIR TUBE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID PARTITION, WHILE THE AIR TUBE OF A SECOND COMMUNICATING SPINNING AND AIR TUBE IS LOCATED ON SAID ONE SIDE OF SAID PARTITION AND THE SPINNING TUBE OF SAID SECOND COMMUNICATING SPINNING AND AIR TUBE IS LOCATED ON SAID OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID PARTITION.