Image Number 6 for United States Patent #5344218.
An apparatus for producing bristle bundles has a shaft-like magazine for cut-to-length bristles and at least one tubular bundle gripper, which can be introduced into the magazine and separates a bristle bundle from the bristle supply and which is internally widened from the opening over a short axial length in a continuous curve and then has over most of its axial length an axially parallel wall, accompanied by the formation of a larger internal cross-section than the said opening. The magazine has a vibrating bottom, which "fluidizes" the bristles and vibrating wall portion pushing flush the said bristles.
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