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Impurities to be eliminated

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In cleaning, it is necessary to release the adhesion of the impurities to the fibers and to give particles an opportunity to separate from the stock. This is achieved mostly by picking flocks out of the feed material and by rapid acceleration of these flocks over a grid. Dirt, dust, foreign matter, and neps should be eliminated.

Cleaning was always an important basic operation, and it will become steadily more important. For one thing, owing to machine harvesting, cotton contains more and more impurities, which furthermore are shattered by hard ginning; for another, almost all new spinning processes impose substantially higher demands on the cleanliness of the material than the conventional methods.