Rieter

Burnishing the clothing

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Burnishing should be avoided for reasons already explained under cleaning out. A single burnish wears down the teeth more than processing tens of thousands of kilograms of material. Nevertheless, burnishing sometimes becomes unavoidable, for example if the teeth were ground too intensively in re-sharpening and the raw material is released relatively poorly from the clothing.

Occasionally, this proves necessary on the doffer. In that case, however, burnishing must be carried out in the direction of the teeth and not against them. Rotation of the brush with a stationary cylinder is to be avoided. Cleaning out with a hand scraper is often enough, without burnishing.