Pull hand sized chunks of fiber from the bale and place it on the extended apron; you may fill the extended apron up to the top of its sideplate (note: standard feeders are not designed to handle "slabs" peeled from a bale).
If the system uses only one type of fiber and has a balebreaker instead of a blendline, then place a full bale in the rear of the balebreaker, remove the straps, wires and cover, and push it forward.
If the operation includes a blendline, the blending feeders will fill the weighpans controlled by electronic or mechanical weighing, which will fill the conveyor and feed the blender.
The conveyor and blender are controlled by the garnett-feeder electric eye, which is placed under the distributor.
In the case of a balebreaker, the garnett-feeder electric eye controls the balebreaker opener feedrolls and feeder lift apron.
Once the fiber enters the garnett-feeder, the operation is the same for both single-fiber and blended systems.
The garnett-feeder drops the fiber into a shaker chute which feeds a uniform batt into the garnett feedrolls; the shaker chute electric eye controls the garnett-feeder lift apron.
The garnett takes the batt and creates a thin web of fiber which is doffed onto the incline apron of a crosslapper (horizontal or camelback).
The crosslapper folds the web onto itself on top of a floor apron turned 90 degrees to the lapper and builds up a garnetted batt of fiber.
The new batt is moved to the incline of the pillow windup unit, which measures the batt length through a rotational counter and tears or "snatches" the batt apart at the prescribed length.
The batt section is then rolled by opposing aprons and dropped onto the pillow stuffer conveyor.
The pillow stuffer compresses the rolled batt and spits it out of the "duckbill" nozzle into the waiting tick.
The tick is then sewn, tagged, bagged or boxed at another station.
Line Components
A - Balebreaker x 60 in
B - Vertical opener x 60 in with z-magnet
C - D-106 x 36 distributor
D - 30-10 ah fan
E - 6-bag filter
F - Volumetric feeder x 60 in
G - 56 in shaker chute
H - 60 in garnett cage
J - Horizontal lapper 72 in x 72 in
K - Floor apron 72 in x 72 in
L - Pillow wind-up x 72 in
M - Pillow stuffer
N - Garnett line control panel
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