Patent ID: 6106381
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: B24B,D01G

Abstract:
A carding machine comprising(a) a main carding cylinder having a circumferential surface carrying a cylinder clothing thereon;(b) a traveling flats assembly cooperating with said main carding cylinder and including(1) a plurality of clothed flat bars arranged in a series and being provided with a flat bar clothing; and(2) a flat drive for moving said clothed flat bars in an endless path having a working path portion along which the flat bar clothings cooperate with said cylinder clothing and a return path portion; and(c) a grinding assembly for sharpening said cylinder clothing; said grinding assembly including(1) a grinding flat bar adapted to be positioned in said series of clothed flat bars to be moved by said flat drive in unison with said clothed flat bars; and(2) a grinding element mounted on said grinding flat bar; said grinding element being in a contacting relationship with said cylinder clothing along said working path portion.