Patent ID: 6691373
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: D01G

Abstract:
A carding machine comprising:(a) a carding cylinder carrying a cylinder clothing; said carding cylinder having a cylinder axis; (b) a plurality of flat bars forming part of a traveling flats assembly; each flat bar having (1) a flat bar clothing carried on an underside of the flat bar for cooperating with the cylinder clothing; (2) a first flat bar part disposed at a longitudinal flat bar end; and (3) a second flat bar part disposed at said longitudinal flat bar end and being spaced from said first flat bar part in a circumferential direction of said carding cylinder; (c) a first arcuate slide guide supported adjacent a radial face of said carding cylinder; said first arcuate slide guide having a first slide surface being concentric with said cylinder axis as viewed in said circumferential direction; said first flat bar part of said flat bars riding on said first slide surface as the flat bars travel along a circumferential portion of said carding cylinder; (d) an arcuate support situated adjacent said radial face of said carding cylinder and extending in said circumferential direction; said arcuate support having a supporting surface having a gradually changing distance from said cylinder axis as viewed in said circumferential direction; (e) a second arcuate slide guide supported on said arcuate support adjacent said radial face of said carding cylinder; said second arcuate slide guide having (1) a second slide surface being concentric with said cylinder axis as viewed in said circumferential direction; said second flat bar part of said flat bars riding on said second slide surface of said second slide guide as the flat bars travel along a circumferential portion of said carding cylinder; (2) an underside having a gradually changing distance from said cylinder axis as viewed in said circumferential direction; said underside of said second arcuate guide being positioned on said supporting surface of said arcuate support; and (f) operating means for shifting said second slide guide in said circumferential direction relative to said arcuate support for varying a radial height position of said second flat bar portion of said flat bars dependent on a circumferential position of said second slide guide, thereby varying an angle of inclination of said flat bar clothings to said cylinder clothing.