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.

The present invention relates to a method of producing a ribbon comprising bamboo fibers. The method comprises positioning the fibers on a conveyor and conveying the fibers in a transport direction, interconnecting the fibers by covering the fibers with thread and/or particles of a sticky material with at least one web forming device which is positioned above and/or below the conveyor and which ejects thread and/or particles. The formed thread and/or particles attaches to the fibers and forms a web which interconnects the fibers in order to form the ribbon and/or stitching the fibres together with at least one stitching device which is configured to stitch the individual fibers together in order to form the ribbon.

The present invention relates to a method of producing a ribbon comprising bamboo fibers. The method comprises positioning the fibers on a conveyor and conveying the fibers in a transport direction, interconnecting the fibers by covering the fibers with thread and/or particles of a sticky material with at least one web forming device which is positioned above and/or below the conveyor and which ejects thread and/or particles. The formed thread and/or particles attaches to the fibers and forms a web which interconnects the fibers in order to form the ribbon and/or stitching the fibres together with at least one stitching device which is configured to stitch the individual fibers together in order to form the ribbon.

The present invention discloses a herbage fiber material normalization arrangement apparatus and a method, wherein the apparatus comprises: a feeding device, a grinding device, a separation device and a dust collection device, the feeding device feeds materials to the grinding device; the grinding device includes a rack and multiple pairs of grinding rollers provided on the rack, installation shafts of driven rollers may displace up and down, the grinding device further includes springs which apply downward pre-tensioning forces to the installation shafts of the driven rollers; the separation device is used to separate scraps from bast fibers; the dust collection device includes a housing, a dust collection tube which communicates with an interior of the housing, and an exhaust fan which causes a negative pressure to be formed within the housing and the dust collection tube. A technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to overcome a disadvantage of an existing apparatus for separating the bast fibers and the epidermis in which the separation is incomplete or the bast fibers are damaged and the environment is polluted, and there is provided a herbage fiber material normalization arrangement apparatus which is able to not damage fibers and is environmentally friendly while separating the bast fibers and the epidermis.

The present invention discloses a herbage fiber material normalization arrangement apparatus and a method, wherein the apparatus comprises: a feeding device, a grinding device, a separation device and a dust collection device, the feeding device feeds materials to the grinding device; the grinding device includes a rack and multiple pairs of grinding rollers provided on the rack, installation shafts of driven rollers may displace up and down, the grinding device further includes springs which apply downward pre-tensioning forces to the installation shafts of the driven rollers; the separation device is used to separate scraps from bast fibers; the dust collection device includes a housing, a dust collection tube which communicates with an interior of the housing, and an exhaust fan which causes a negative pressure to be formed within the housing and the dust collection tube. A technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to overcome a disadvantage of an existing apparatus for separating the bast fibers and the epidermis in which the separation is incomplete or the bast fibers are damaged and the environment is polluted, and there is provided a herbage fiber material normalization arrangement apparatus which is able to not damage fibers and is environmentally friendly while separating the bast fibers and the epidermis.

The present invention relates to a method of producing a ribbon (12) comprising bamboo fibers (14), the method comprising: positioning the fibers (14) on a conveyor (16) and conveying the fibers in a transport direction, interconnecting the fibers (14) by: covering the fibers with thread (42) and/or particles of a sticky material with at least one web forming device (40) which is positioned above and/or below the conveyor and which ejects thread and/or particles, wherein the formed thread and/or particles attaches to the fibers and forms a web (45) which interconnects the fibers in order to form the ribbon, and/or stitching the fibres together with at least one stitching device (40B) which is configured to stitch the individual fibers together in order to form the ribbon.

The present invention provides improved hemp decortication systems and methods, and include multi stage segmenting, cleaning, and combing methods and apparatus for separating fibrous plant stalk, and particularly for separating hemp bast fiber from hemp hurd.