Abstract: A carding machine has a number of rollers including a cylinder and having at least one clothed and/or unclothed machine element located opposite the cylinder at a spacing therefrom. The machine may have further elements influencing the carding nip. In order to make possible a carding nip between the cylinder and the clothed and/or unclothed counterpart element that remains constant or virtually constant when heat is generated, the parts influencing the carding nip are so construed that they have thermal expansion characteristics which are such that, when subjected to the heat acting on them in use, the carding nip remains substantially constant.

Abstract: A rotor blade is made of fiber-reinforced synthetic resin and comprises a moulded core with central, front and rear elements and a foot end fastening element, a unidirectional fiber layer being wound longitudinally of the core, a first cross-binding lying over the fiber layer and a second cross-binding forming a covering for the entire assembly.

Abstract: A rotor blade is made of fibre-reinforced synthetic resin and comprises a moulded core with central, front and rear elements and a foot end fastening element, a unidirectional fibre layer being wound longitudinally of the core, a first cross-binding lying over the fibre layer and a second cross-binding forming a covering for the entire assembly.