US 12,421,632 B2
Elastic cleaning lip, support element, and cleaning unit
Daniel Schmolke, Ingolstadt (DE); and Dietmar Greis, Ingolstadt (DE)
Assigned to Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG, Winterthur (CH)
Filed by Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG, Winterthur (CH)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/539,450.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 132 058.2 (DE), filed on Dec. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0170184 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. D01H 5/62 (2006.01)
CPC D01H 5/62 (2013.01) 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An elastic cleaning lip for cleaning a rotating roller of a drafting system of a textile machine, comprising:
a wiping edge configured at a longitudinal side of the cleaning lip;
a mounting element at an opposite longitudinal side of the cleaning lip configured to mount to a support element;
the cleaning lip configured into a Y-shaped structure comprising a stem and two essentially parallel legs that are laterally outward of the stem and the wiping edge, wherein the two legs are connected to each other with a plurality of webs, and wherein adjacent webs are slanted in a diametrically opposed manner with respect to one another;
wherein the wiping edge is arranged at an end of the stem and the two legs form the mounting element for a form-locking mounting of the cleaning lip to the support element;
wherein the cleaning lip including the wiping edge, the mounting element, and the plurality of webs is formed of a same material; and
a groove defined along a longitudinal side of the stem at an end of the stem adjacent to the two legs, the groove defining a reduced thickness section of the stem laterally inward of the two legs.