Sliver formation

Web condensation

• Detaching rollers moves Web

backward & forward Web pan
• A reserve of material must Trumpet Detaching rollers
be formed periodically Calendar rollers
between detaching rollers
and withdrawal roller
• A web pan collects the web
and acts as a reservoir

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Web under detaching roller

Detaching roller Weight

of 5mm
pieces
Detaching roller

Length along detached web

Web
•The mass distribution profile of web is NOT
symmetrical
• It is skewed towards tail part

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 Web collection

Centre line
collection
Mass profile of super imposed web

Web piecing line

Side wise collection

Web piecing line diagonal

•Side wise collection leads to partial

compensation of piecing wave
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 Sliver guidance
Comber head
Sliver
pan

Withdrawal
roller

x
Feed Sliver trumpet (T)
slivers
table
Drafting unit Deflecting
volute (P)
• Combed fringes are passed through a trumpet
• The slivers are guided over sliver table and deflected by 90 degree by deflecting volute
• Some manufacturers provide eccentrically rotatable volute to adjust the sliver path
from trumpet to drafting rollers. This is done to stagger the piecings of the slivers
relative to each other to partially compensate the mass variation due to piecings.

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Drafting unit Method of operation

• Two zone drafting : Break draft (VV) and

main draft (HV)

• The pressure bar (9) guides the fibres in the

main draft zone.

• The total draft (Z) comprises the break draft

and the main draft. The total draft and the
break draft can be adjusted.

• The drafting system distance in the main draft

(HV) zone and the break draft (VV) zone can
be adjusted, and has to be adapted to the fibre
length .

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Sliver guidance for drafting

Comber head

x
Feed
slivers
table
Drafting unit

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