San Giorgio, Worsted Cards, 2200mm Working Width, 5 Card Set, 216 Tapes

Description

  1. Overview
    1. Year unknown, imported from Italy 3 years ago.
    2. Working width 2200 mm.
    3. Each set consists of 5 big cards (4 cards plus avantren).
    4. Machines on mill floor, stopped in 2010.
  2. Composition - First Card Set
    1. Weighting hopper feeder with electronic scales and independent inverter motor.
    2. Infeeding arrangement with 3 rollers.
    3. Breast with cylinder of 1300 mm diameter.
    4. Main cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers and 7 flyers.
    5. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter.
    6. Transfer cylinder of 600 mm diameter.
    7. Second cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers.
    8. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter.
    9. Burr crusher (Peralta).
    10. Transporter/layer at 90 degrees (crossing the fibres) – first part of 2 cylinders powered with one inverter.
    11. Infeeding 3 roller arrangement.
    12. Cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers.
    13. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter.
    14. Burr crusher (Peralta).
    15. Transfer transporter horizontal – second segment of 1 cylinder controlled with one inverter.
    16. Infeeding 3 roller arrangement.
    17. Cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers.
    18. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter with 7 workers.
    19. Horizontal transporting lattice.
    20. Cylinder of 1500 mm diameter.
    21. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter.
    22. Tape divider with 216 tapes of 10.3 mm.
    23. Creel – last part of 2 cylinders also controlled by one separate inverter.
  3. Composition - Second Card Set
    1. Same as first set, with the following differences: only one burr crusher (not two).
    2. Second transporter is crane-arm type (not horizontal).
  4. Clothing Details
    1. On the first cylinder: metal wire clothing.
    2. On the rest: elastic clothing.
    3. Status of coating: average.
    4. Wire coating on avantrens: good.