Apparatus and method for producing weighed charges of loosely aggregated filamentary material from compacted bales of the material

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Abstract the Disclosure Bales of filamentary material are separated into weighed charges of the material by disintegrating the bales in a rotating drum to produce tufts that are passed to a picking chamber wherein a toothed roll strips individual filaments from a supply roll formed from the tufts and passing the filaments to scales upon which the charges are accumulated. Each time a charge is accumulated on a scale air is blown across the scale to discharge the scale. The charges are delivered to a magazine. having a plurality of vertically stacked chambers, each chamber underlain by a movable gate, through which the charges are passed sequentially to be discharged at a fixed schedule from …