Working Procedure of Comber Machine

***Comber machine : Working procedure of comber machine, procedure, cycle,
noil% e, production calculation

Noil% control
7000grnd=1000 pound
Eff…90%
Noil…12
Noil percentage = (Weight of noil produced / Total weight of cotton fed) x 100
Working procedure of comber machine

At first lap is fed by lap roller. Then lap is passed though the condenser. Material is
passed under the feed roller and through the nipper. Here top and bottom nippers are
used to nip the lap. Then lap is passed through the detaching roller. Here a cloth clearer
is used to clean the lap. Then it passes through the condenser and calendar roller. Then
it enters into the drafting zone by the feed table. Then the drafted material is passed by
the help of belt into trumpet. Finally it is deposited into can by passing though coiler
calendar roller and coiler head.
Comber cycle
* (a) Feed rollers (S) move lap sheet (W) forward by a small amount (4.3 – 6.7 mm),
while nippers (Zo/Zu) are held open (feed).
* (b) Upper nipper plate Zo is lowered onto cushion plate (Zu) so that the fibers are
clamped between them (nipping).
* (c) Combing segment (K), mounted on rotating cylinder (Z), sweeps saw-teeth
through fiber fringe (B) and carries away anything not held by the nippers (rotary
combing).
* (d) The nippers open again and move toward detaching rollers (A) (nippers forward).
* (e) Meanwhile detaching rollers (A) have returned part of the previously drawn-off
stock (web V) by means of a (partial) reverse rotation, so that the web protrudes from
the back of the detaching device (web return).
* (f) In the course of the forward movement of the nippers the projecting fiber fringe
(B) is placed on the returned web (V) (piecing).
* (g) The detaching rollers begin to rotate in the forward direction again and draw the
clamped fibers out of web (W) held fast by feed rollers (S) (inside the nippers)
(detaching).
* (h) Before the start of the detaching operation, top comb (F) has thrust its single row
of teeth into the fiber fringe. As the fibers are pulled through the teeth of the top comb
during detaching, the trailing part of the fringe is combed, thus making up for the
inability of the circular combs to reach this part of the fringe (passive combing by the
top comb).
* (i) As the nipper assembly is retracted, the nippers open for the next feeding step.
The top comb is withdrawn. A new combing cycle begins.
* (j) Contrary to the movements of the other parts, the combing cylinder rotates
continuously. During this rotation and at a certain instant the combing segment is
brought into the vicinity of a rapidly revolving brush mounted below the combing
cylinder. This brush removes the imperfections, etc., from the combing segment, and
ejects them into an extractor that carries the noil away to a collecting filter system.
Comber Waste:
The waste material (short fibers) removed during combing is referred to as noil (or
sometimes as comber waste). Noil consists of shorter fibers and neps. The amount of
noil removed in the combing process may be varied to suit the circumstances and is
usually expressed in percentage based on the original weight of laps fed into the
machine. The percentage of noil being calculated as follows:
Methods of Improving Noil Percentage:

* By changing the type of feed. Backward feed will obviously result in increasing no
percentage because during backward feed of fibres combing is done 4 times where as it
is 3 times in case of forward feed.
* By changing the ratchet wheel number i.e. decreasing the ratchet wheel teeth amount
of noil % can be increased.
* By changing the distance between nipper to detaching or by changing the index. If
the index is more, then the % of noils removed will also be more.
* By decreasing the distance between top comb and unicomb the percentage removal
of noil is increased.
Combing Efficiency
Combing efficiency is calculated based on the improvement in 50% span length,
expressed as a percentage over 50% span length of the lap fed to the comber multiplied with
waste percentage:

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***Comber machine : Working procedure of comber machine, procedure, cycle,

noil% e, production calculation

Working procedure of comber machine

Methods of Improving Noil Percentage:

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