The Tuft Feeder DIRECTFEED is an integral part of the Card TC 11. The delivery roll of tuft feeding is identical to the card‘s feed roll. Hence, faulty drafts due to wrong or suboptimal settings have no chance to develop.
DIRECTFEED utilises the successful Trützschler double trunk principle: The upper trunk has a significantly larger volume for a 60 –180 % higher material reserve, whereas the special geometry of the lower trunk and the extended material fly form the foundation for excellent sliver CV values. The air outlet comb with direct and permanent suction is positioned right in front of the feed roll. It is only here, just a few centimetres in front of the nip line of the feed roll, that the actual web is formed.

The flexible Integral Feed Tray SENSOFEED+ ensures controlled web feeding to the ­WEBFEED Unit. Its feed table compacts the tuft web and guides it to a knife-shaped feed tray tip. The material at this top allows a partial elastic deformation that occurs when material slubs are fed. This deformation is only a few hundredth of a millimetre and has hardly any influence on the overall deflection of the feed tray. As additional function, the Integral Feed Plate SENSOFEED+ can also include feed monitoring for the card.

The WEBFEED system consists of one large or three opening rolls connected in series. The tufts are opened in a gentler way and to a higher degree than is the case with conventional licker-ins. This results in an even and fine web that increases the carding efficiency at the actual main working points (between cylinder and flats/carding segments) during the transfer to the main cylinder. Fibre pre-opening is of decisive importance for the carding process. Therefore it makes sense here to precisely adapt to the respective application. In the process, the different versions are flexible and easy to replace.