A plant stalk decortication apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes an alignment system in which a series of rotating spindles with blades attached to the spindles are positioned over a bed on which plant stalks are longitudinally aligned and conveyed by the blades. The apparatus also includes rollers and breakers downstream of the blades for crushing and breaking the plant stalks to cause the bast fibers and hurd to separate. The apparatus also includes a suction chamber that separates loose bast fiber from hurd chips formed by the breakers.

A plant stalk decortication apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes an alignment system in which a series of rotating spindles with blades attached to the spindles are positioned over a bed on which plant stalks are longitudinally aligned and conveyed by the blades. The apparatus also includes rollers and breakers downstream of the blades for crushing and breaking the plant stalks to cause the bast fibers and hurd to separate. The apparatus also includes a suction chamber that separates loose bast fiber from hurd chips formed by the breakers.

An apparatus with a projection defining first and second openings and a channel between the openings. An interior surface adjacent the channel tapers inwardly from the first opening to the second opening, and a shearing edge is positioned adjacent the second opening. A method of using the apparatus to separate protuberances of a plant from an elongate portion of the plant by pulling the elongate portion through the channel. Another apparatus with first and second counter-rotating rollers. Each roller having alternating projecting portions and valleys and oriented so that projecting portions of one roller are aligned with valleys of the other roller as the rollers rotate. A method of using the rollers to deform an elongate portion of a plant between the projecting portions of one roller and the valleys of the other roller.

An apparatus with a projection defining first and second openings and a channel between the openings. An interior surface adjacent the channel tapers inwardly from the first opening to the second opening, and a shearing edge is positioned adjacent the second opening. A method of using the apparatus to separate protuberances of a plant from an elongate portion of the plant by pulling the elongate portion through the channel. Another apparatus with first and second counter-rotating rollers. Each roller having alternating projecting portions and valleys and oriented so that projecting portions of one roller are aligned with valleys of the other roller as the rollers rotate. A method of using the rollers to deform an elongate portion of a plant between the projecting portions of one roller and the valleys of the other roller.

A method for preparing continuous bamboo fibers, which relates to a technical field of bamboo fiber preparation. The method includes processing bamboo raw materials into reticulated bamboo fiber strips, screening the bamboo fiber strips, dividing the reticulated bamboo fiber strips with different properties according to product requirements, performing high pressure splitting on the reticulated bamboo fiber strips which conforms to a screening condition, separating the bamboo fibers with different slenderness ratios from the bamboo fiber strips after the high pressure splitting is performed, forming a partial oriented bamboo fiber mat with uniform density by the bamboo fibers, forming an oriented bamboo fiber bundle with uniform linear density by the bamboo fiber mat, twisting the bamboo fiber bundle to form a bamboo fiber yarn, forming a rope by the bamboo fiber yarn, and forming a spindle based on a specifications.

A method for preparing continuous bamboo fibers, which relates to a technical field of bamboo fiber preparation. The method includes processing bamboo raw materials into reticulated bamboo fiber strips, screening the bamboo fiber strips, dividing the reticulated bamboo fiber strips with different properties according to product requirements, performing high pressure splitting on the reticulated bamboo fiber strips which conforms to a screening condition, separating the bamboo fibers with different slenderness ratios from the bamboo fiber strips after the high pressure splitting is performed, forming a partial oriented bamboo fiber mat with uniform density by the bamboo fibers, forming an oriented bamboo fiber bundle with uniform linear density by the bamboo fiber mat, twisting the bamboo fiber bundle to form a bamboo fiber yarn, forming a rope by the bamboo fiber yarn, and forming a spindle based on a specifications.

Method and apparatus for decortication of plant stalks, involving flattening the plant stalk into two substantially planar stalk sides adjoined at their edges; splitting the two substantially planar stalk sides one from the other; bending the flat stalk piece with the hurd on the outside of the bend and bast on the inside of the bend; separating the segments such that the bast pulls away from the hurd and spans the gap between the two segments; bringing a stripper into abutment with the spanning bast and moving the stripper so as to draw the bast, which strips the bast away from the hurd; and removing the bast from the stripper.

Method and apparatus for decortication of plant stalks, involving flattening the plant stalk into two substantially planar stalk sides adjoined at their edges; splitting the two substantially planar stalk sides one from the other; bending the flat stalk piece with the hurd on the outside of the bend and bast on the inside of the bend; separating the segments such that the bast pulls away from the hurd and spans the gap between the two segments; bringing a stripper into abutment with the spanning bast and moving the stripper so as to draw the bast, which strips the bast away from the hurd; and removing the bast from the stripper.

A method, application and device for obtaining fibres from at least one plant stem or from plant bast is disclosed. The at least one plant stem is treated with at least one high-speed liquid jet or high-speed gas jet. At the start of treatment with the high-speed liquid jet or the high speed gas jet the at least one plant stem has a moisture content of at least 25% and/or vegetable glues, in particular the pectin and hemicelluloses, of the plant stem are in a swollen state.

A decorticating machine comprising modular drum assemblies of different tooth and surface patterns that are installed between pairs of left and right lower and upper rails is described. The modular drum assemblies (usually provided in upper and lower drum pairs) and the number thereof can be chosen based on the particulars of the type of stalk being processed.