Apparatus for forming fiber balls with clippers and related methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9169580
APP PUB NO 20130125346A1
SERIAL NO

13674495

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An apparatus for forming fiber balls uses automated clippers that can cooperate with a wheel that turns and operates in a stop and go sequence to hold gathered segments of lengths of elongate fibers, then present the gathered segments to a clipper, then rotate with the clipped segments of elongate fibers, allowing a knife or blade to extend to cut between adjacent clipped segments to form fiber balls with a clip or clips at a medial portion thereof.

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TIPPER TIE INC2000 LUFKIN ROAD APEX NC 27539

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Griggs, Samuel D Raleigh, US 89 988
May, Dennis J Pittsboro, US 107 1335

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