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The automatic Bale Opener Machine is the first major machine in blow room or ring spinning. The first generation automatic bale opening machines were mostly stationary. Only the bales were moved, either backward and forward or in a circle. The second-generation machines are of the traveling type, i.e. they move past the stationary bales of the layout and extract material from top to bottom. Traveling machines have the advantage that more bales can be processed as an overall unit (charge), and thus a better long-term blend is achieved. It should be noted, however, that these machines extract material only in batches, i.e. they can process only one, two, or at most three bales simultaneously. If a long-term blend is to be achieved, then mixing machines must be included downstream from the bale opener. A bale layout can comprise up to 130 bales from 4 to 6 different sources, i.e. 4 to 6 different types of a bale per fiber blend. Intervening spaces sometimes have to be left between the i