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Pillow Blowing System

The blowing system is a very simple operation of opening baled fiber and transporting it into a pillow tick or other receptacle.

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1. Pull hand sized chunks of fiber from the bale and place it on the extended apron. You may fill the extended apron to the top of its sideplate. (Note: standard feeders are not designed to handle "slabs" peeled from a bale).
2. Turn the system on as described in the Operations section.
3. The extended apron electric eye will make the apron move fiber into the feeder.
4. The feeder lift apron will pick fiber from the bottom apron "ball" and pull it over the top.
5. The kickroll or pinroll will prevent clumps of fiber from being carried over the top.
6. The fiber will drop into the reserve chute between the feeder and opener.
7. The electric eye in the reserve chute will control the lift apron in the feeder to add fiber to the chute.
8. The operator opens a pillow tick or other receptacle and places the open end around the perforated nozzle, leaving 4 to 6 inches of perforations free for air to escape.
9. The operator steps on the footswitch which turns on the opener feedrolls and opens the shut-off slide gate between the fan and opener outlet.
10. When the operator is satisfied that the tick is sufficiently full (this becomes easier with an experienced operator), they remove their foot from the switch which stops the feedrolls and closes the slide gate.
11. The tick is then sewn closed, tagged and bagged or boxed at another operation.
12. The operator then repeats the process from step eight (8).
13. As fiber is removed from the extended apron, more chunks must be replaced from the bale.

Garnetted Pillow Stuffing System

The garnetted pillow stuffing system is a more complicated process than the blowing operation, but it makes rolled batting for more expensive end products.

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1. 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).
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The conveyor and blender are controlled by the garnett-feeder electric eye, which is place under the distributor.
5. In the case of a balebreaker, the garnett-feeder electric eye controls the balebreaker opener feedrolls and feeder lift apron.
6. Once the fiber enters the garnett-feeder, the operation is the same for both single-fiber and blended systems.
7. 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.
8. 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).
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. The batt section is then rolled by opposing aprons and dropped onto the pillow stuffer conveyor.
12. The pillow stuffer compresses the rolled batt and spits it out of the "duckbill" nozzle into the waiting tick.
13. The tick is then sewn, tagged, bagged or boxed at another station.

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