Step Cleaner in Blow Room – Working Principle
By Md Mahedi Hasan
What is step cleaner in textile?
In the textile industry, a step cleaner is a common machine used in a
blower room. It is used to open and clean by opposite spike action,
remove heavy impurities, and make smaller tuff cotton.
A step cleaner, ultra cleaner, or super cleaner machine is one of the most
important machines used in the blowroom section of the spinning industry.
This major beating type of machine is used for opening and cleaning the
impurities from the cotton tuft.
Table of Contents
What is step cleaner in textile?
Basic Action
Objects
Characteristics
Working principle:
How to increase beating action in step cleaner?
General Information
Basic Action of Step Cleaner:
1. The action of the beater.
2. The action of opposite spikes.
3. The action of air current.
Objects:
To open & clean cotton tuft by opposite spikes and beating action
To open the lumps of cotton into small pieces.
To clear the cotton suitable for processing to the next machine.
To remove heavy impurities such as leaves, and sand, without
damaging the fiber.
To convert or make the cotton tuft to the small size of cotton fiber.
Characteristics
1. Beating Type: Major beater M/C [Beater, Opening & Cleaning]
2. Courser Cleaner
3. Fine Tuff Size
4. 30-40% cleaning
5. 6 beater or cylinder
6. 450 Upward Machine Position
7. Impurities pass over between two grid bar
8. Blade or Flat grid bar used
Working principle:
Cotton is fed from the reserve tower by a pair of feed rollers. Later it
passes to the first beater. From there it is transported upwards by the six
(sometimes 4) beater rollers, each carrying profiled bars, the beaters
arranged on a line inclined upwards at 450. As you can see in the diagram.
The step cleaner machine diagram is as follows:
Step cleaner diagram
The trashes are extracted with the help of opposite spikes and beating
functions. It pulls the trash and falls into the chamber through the grid
bars hole. Cotton tuft opens and makes small-size tuft with beating action.
A baffle plate is in the middle of two beaters, and it controls the flow of
material.
Elimination of impurities occurs during the continual passage of the
material over the girds arranged under the
beaters. The grids are continuously adjustable and usually also the beater
speed.
How to increase beating action in step cleaner?
– By increasing the beater speed
– Increase grid bar
– Increase grid bar angle -150 (Max), 00, – 150
Machine Parameters:
General Information
No of beater 6
No. of grid bar 5 sets
No. of grid bar in every set 20 – 25
Cleaning efficiency 40%
Production /hour 750 – 900 Kg.
Cleaning Ability High, applicable for all grades of cotton.
Beater to grid bar 1.75 inches
Beater to beater 5 inch
Speed 450 to 800 RPM.
Machine Info
Step Cleaner Machine Parameter
Output Deliver 800 kg/ per hour
Working Width 1060
No of Cylinder / Beater 6
Spike Type Round
Cylinder Dia 455
Speed of Cylinder/ Beater Speed 462, 510, 562, 655, 722 RPM
Grid Bar Type Blade or Flat Type
1,2,3 Cylinder 31 Set
Number of Grid Bar
4, 5 Cylinder 33 Set
Grid bar angle +150 to – 150
Grid Bar to Spike Setting Fixed
Machine Parameter of Step Cleaner