Apparatus for the automatic infeed of a textile fibre sheet into a coiler

Claim 1

Apparatus for the automatic infeed of a textile fibre sheet into a coiler, for example at the delivery side of a drafting machine, comprising a smooth-surfaced transverse guide to be placed at the delivery side of a pair of drawing rollers and having an orifice for gathering into a tuft the fibre sheet coming from said pair of rollers, a cylindrical outlet tube extending from said gathering orifice, pneumatic means coupled to said cylindrical outlet for inducing a suction of air therein and drawing the tuft into the outlet tube, and a pair of final draw rolls set at the downstream end of the outlet tube, said final rolls being positioned in their normal working made in a closed position to close substantially said downstream end for mechanically drawing the tuft through said rolls, and one of said final rolls being temporarily movable to a separated position apart from the other roll to open said downstream end and to cause said pneumatic means to induce a suction of air through said tube to drive the leading end of the tuft through said rolls.