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EP 0130369 B1 19860723 - DEVICE FOR OPENING FIBRE BALES

Title (en)

DEVICE FOR OPENING FIBRE BALES

Publication

EP 0130369 B1 19860723 (DE)

Application

EP 84106124 A 19840529

Priority

CH 344683 A 19830624

Abstract (en)

[origin: US4513479A] To avoid damage to apparatus for opening textile fiber bales by foreign bodies, a fiber diverting member, against an edge of which such foreign bodies strike during opening of the fiber bales, is mounted to be pivotable out of either one of two possible predetermined fiber diverting positions.

IPC 1-7

D01G 7/04

IPC 8 full level

B65G 11/00 (2006.01); D01G 7/04 (2006.01); D02J 1/18 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

D01G 7/04 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

CH DE FR GB IT LI

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0130369 A1 19850109; EP 0130369 B1 19860723; DE 3460341 D1 19860828; IN 160371 B 19870711; JP S6028540 A 19850213; US 4513479 A 19850430

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 84106124 A 19840529; DE 3460341 T 19840529; IN 386MA1984 A 19840525; JP 12768784 A 19840622; US 62199884 A 19840618