Abstract: According to one embodiment, a spinning apparatus includes a spinning head and a rotational brush. An organic material is filled up inside the spinning head, and the spinning head ejects the organic material on a surface of a base to form a sheet of the organic fiber on the surface of the base. The rotational brush includes a plurality of brush bristles and is rotated while the brush bristles are in contact with the sheet in the surface of the base. The rotational brush strips the organic fiber from a part of the sheet by the rotation.

Abstract: In an apparatus on a carding machine for grinding a fiber processing clothing on a roller or a card flat, grinding equipment includes at least one grinding element and an infeed device serving to position the grinding element against the clothing. To permit reliable detection and monitoring of the contact between the at least one grinding element and the clothing in a simple manner, a structure-borne noise sensor is associated with the grinding equipment and an electronic evaluator is capable of determining from the structure-borne noise the intensity of the contact between the at least one grinding element and the clothing.

Abstract: An apparatus for on card cleaning and grinding of revolving flats (4) in a carding machine is disclosed. The apparatus mounts an interchangeable rotary cleaning brush (14) or grinding wheel (16) on a wheel drive (11) so that the wheel can be spun around an axis lateral to the path of the revolving flats (4). During a carding operation the height of the cleaning brush (14) is accurately adjusted by a precision feeding mechanism so that the brush cleans down to the surface of the revolving flats of the revolving flats (4) and so cleans and polishes the wires (4b) and the fouling which commonly accumulates beneath the points (4c) of the wires. The brush (14) can readily be replaced by a grinding wheel with a peripheral grinding surface.

Abstract: A card top bar for a carding machine, has a carrying member and a releasable clothing portion in which card top bar there are provided two card top heads, each of which slides on a slideway, the card top heads comprise at least one sliding region, which is in contact with the slideway, and at least one fixing region, which is in engagement with the rest of the card top bar and which at the same time holds the sliding region. In order to improve the card top bar, the card top heads are in engagement with the carrier for the clothing.

Abstract: A cogged-belt drive device for drawing along mobile flats of flat cards, in which the cogged belts are equipped, in their development facing the flat guides, with scraping or cleaning elements that eliminate the accumulation of foreign bodies from the guides on which the resting elements of the card flats are drawn along.

Abstract: A flat end head with a mounting section for the flat rod and at least one sliding surface for progressive movement on a sliding guide of a card is made of a polymer material. The polymer material may be fiber-reinforced. Further, the polymer material may include a solid lubricant. The sliding guide may also be made of a polymer material. An apparatus for replacing a flat end head on a flat rod is also provided.

Abstract: A drive belt assembly for a revolving flat card includes a flexible belt. At least a pair of connecting elements are integrally formed with the belt. The connecting elements include a cross-beam with an inclined surface. A locking element is disposed between the pair of connecting elements in order to prevent the connecting elements from approaching one another. The locking element is removable from the pair of connecting elements to allow for the approaching of the connecting elements to one another.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a carding cylinder and a plurality of traveling flat bars. Each flat bar has a flat bar clothing carried on an underside of the flat bar for cooperating with the cylinder clothing. The flat bar clothing of the flat bars is oriented at an adjustable angle to the cylinder clothing. Each flat bar has first and second flat bar parts at a longitudinal flat bar end. A first arcuate slide guide is supported adjacent a radial face of the carding cylinder, and the first flat bar part of the flat bars rides on the first slide guide. A second arcuate slide guide is supported adjacent the radial face of the carding cylinder, and the second flat bar part of the flat bars rides on the second slide guide. The second slide guide is wedge-shaped and is shiftable in a circumferential direction of the carding cylinder.

Abstract: Device for cleaning the guides of travelling flats in a flat carding machine, to eliminate from these deposits of foreign material found in the carded fibrous material, consisting in fitting the travelling flats assembly with flats provided with scraping or cleaning elements which come into contact with the surfaces of the guides on which the elements on which the flats rest are pulled.

Abstract: A flat bar is provided for use in a carding machine having a roller with clothing. The flat bar is for arranging opposite the clothing on the roller. The flat bar has a flat bar support body having a recess, a clothing support having a first side, the first side being positioned in the recess, flat bar clothing attached to a second side of the clothing support, the second side being opposite the first side, and at least one fastening element that secures the first side of the clothing support in the recess.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder and a traveling flats assembly including flat bars circulating in a path and cooperating with the main carding cylinder. The carding machine further includes an apparatus for cleaning the flat bars. The apparatus includes a stationary track extending adjacent and transversely to the travel path of the flat bars; a carriage mounted on the track for back-and-forth travel thereon between opposite track ends; a blow nozzle mounted on the carriage and oriented at an oblique angle to the flat bar clothing of a flat bar situated in an effective range of the blow nozzle; and an arrangement for supplying pressurized air to the blow nozzle for causing it to eject an air jet for impinging on the flat bar clothing and for propelling the carriage along the track.

Abstract: A carding machine includes flat bars traveling in an endless path. First and second end rolls periodically reverse the travel direction of each flat bar. First and second drive shafts carry and rotate the respective first and second end rolls. An apparatus for cleaning the flat bars includes a throughgoing, eccentric aperture provided in a radial wall of the first end roll. At any time at least two mutually adjoining flat bars, situated on the first end roll, are aligned at least partially with the aperture. A suction inlet adjoins the radial wall of the first end roll for being periodically brought into alignment with the aperture as the first end roll rotates. A suction chamber is formed by a space bounded by the adjoining flat bars and a surface of the first drive shaft.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder and a traveling flats assembly including flat bars circulating in a path and cooperating with the main carding cylinder. The carding machine further includes an apparatus for cleaning the flat bars. The apparatus includes a stationary track extending adjacent and transversely to the travel path of the flat bars; a carriage mounted on the track for back-and-forth travel thereon between opposite track ends; a blow nozzle mounted on the carriage and oriented at an oblique angle to the flat bar clothing of a flat bar situated in an effective range of the blow nozzle; and an arrangement for supplying pressurized air to the blow nozzle for causing it to eject an air jet for impinging on the flat bar clothing and for propelling the carriage along the track.

Abstract: A carding machine includes flat bars traveling in an endless path. First and second end rolls periodically reverse the travel direction of each flat bar. First and second drive shafts carry and rotate the respective first and second end rolls. An apparatus for cleaning the flat bars includes a throughgoing, eccentric aperture provided in a radial wall of the first end roll. At any time at least two mutually adjoining flat bars, situated on the first end roll, are aligned at least partially with the aperture. A suction inlet adjoins the radial wall of the first end roll for being periodically brought into alignment with the aperture as the first end roll rotates. A suction chamber is formed by a space bounded by the adjoining flat bars and a surface of the first drive shaft.

Abstract: An arrangement for a carding machine for parallel arrangement of fibers, includes a carding track; a plurality of flat bars arranged for being guided along the carding track; clothing positioned respectively on each flat bar, the clothing including clothing structure that engages in the fibers; and a mechanism for releaseably fastening the clothing to each flat bar.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder, a travelling flats assembly having a plurality of flat bars provided with a clothing cooperating with the clothing of the main carding cylinder; an endless flat bar driving element trained about end sprockets and circulating the flat bars in an endless path; a flat cleaning device supported at a location above the flat bar driving element and including a rotatably supported flat brush roller. A gearing is provided which has an input shaft connected to a power drive, a first output shaft connected to one of the end sprockets for circulating the flat bar driving element and a second output shaft connected to the flat brush roller for rotating the same. The first and second output shafts have a constant distance from one another.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder, a travelling flats assembly having a plurality of flat bars provided with a clothing cooperating with the clothing of the main carding cylinder; an endless flat bar driving element trained about end sprockets and circulating the flat bars in an endless path; a flat cleaning device supported at a location above the flat bar driving element and including a rotatably supported flat brush roller. A shifting device is provided for raising the flat bar driving element and the flat bars situated at the location towards the flat brush roller for establishing a contacting relationship between the flat brush roller and the clothing of the respective flat bars and for lowering the flat bar driving element and the flat bars situated at the location away from the flat brush roller for discontinuing a contacting relationship between the flat brush roller and the clothing of the respective flat bars.

Abstract: Device for cleaning the coverings of the mobile flats in a flat carder, consisting of a rotary brush which is parallel to the to the cards, provided with mobile cleaning equipment, comprising a toothed rake which moves transversely to the brush, and a fixed suction nozzle for the material captured by the rake.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder having a cylinder axis and carrying a cylinder clothing on a circumferential surface thereof and a traveling flats assembly cooperating with the main carding cylinder along a circumferential length portion thereof. The traveling flats assembly includes a plurality of flat bars each having a flat bar clothing cooperating with the cylinder clothing; and a drive member for moving the flat bars in unison in an endless path; a rigid support member fixedly held on a machine frame laterally of the main carding cylinder and having a convex supporting surface; and a slide guide at least indirectly held on the supporting surface of the support member. The slide guide has a convex upper surface supporting the flat bars for sliding motion thereon and an opposite, lower surface. The radial distance between clothing points of the flat bar clothings and the carding cylinder clothing are determined and are changeable by the shape and/or the position of the slide guide.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the drive belt for receiving the flats in a revolving flat card employs pairs of connecting elements for snap-fitting into an aperture in an end head at one end of a flat. Each connecting element has an inclined surface which extends from the body of the belt to form an acute angle of from 60.degree. to 80.degree.. The end head of each flat has a rectangular opening to receive the pair of connecting elements and has transverse molding each provided with an inclined surface to mate with the inclined surfaces of the connecting elements of the belt. In another embodiment, the drive belt employs pairs of ribs of simple rectangular section to engage within a buckle element of a flat while each rib is able to flex about a root of the rib at the belt body.

Abstract: A carding flat and a system for guiding and driving it in a card with moving flats driven by articulated chains, in which coupling between the flats and chains is achieved by a form fit using recesses and projections without fixed retention devices, so that these elements are not mutually constrained in the direction perpendicular to the chain movement.

Abstract: A carding flat and a system for guiding and driving it in a card with moving flats driven by toothed belts, in which coupling between the flats and belts is achieved by a form fit between cavities and projections without fixed retention means, so enabling these elements to freely rotate about the coupling axis.

Abstract: A carding machine including a carding drum and a plurality of carding elements cooperating with the carding drum is provided with a cleaning belt carrying a card cloth and mounted for displacement transversely of the direction of rotation of the carding drum, and an exhaustor device cooperating with the cleaning belt. The card cloth conveys contaminations contained in the fibre material towards one side, resulting in transverse displacement of the fibre material and thus in an uneven thickness of the fibre web. The contaminations are moreover not completely removed, but rather accumulated on one side of the fibre web.

Abstract: The flat cleaning apparatus employs a comb for loosening fibers and dirt particles carried by the revolving flats of the revolving flat clothing. In addition, a casing which travels across the width of the revolving system has a suction nozzle for drawing up the loosened strips of fibers and dirt particles. In addition, a brush is provided downstream of the suction nozzle which is movable relative to the flats to clean between the flats so as to release deep-seated dirt after the strips are removed. The brush is mounted in a chamber which communicates with the suction nozzle so that a suction force is available for removing the deep-seated dirt brought up by the brush.

Abstract: A lubricating device for the revolving flat arrangement of a carding machine having two chains arranged at the sides of the card and engaging ends of the revolving flats. The chains move in a loop and are guided by stationary guides at least in the area of the card cylinder and slide surfaces of the flats slide along these guides. At least one lubricant container is provided at each side of the revolving flat arrangement and is responsible for the dosed lubrication of the sliding surfaces. A rotatable transfer element associated with the appropriate lubricant container comes into contact with the lubricant and the sliding surfaces and is driven from the appropriate chain via a gear wheel.

Abstract: A travelling flat bar includes a head, an opening in the head, a coupling element received in the opening and arranged for attaching the flat bar to a flat-moving chain and a securing (locking) arrangement for readily releasably retaining the coupling element in the opening. The locking arrangement cooperates with the coupling element for form-lockingly retaining the coupling element in the opening.

Abstract: A revolving flat arrangement for a carding machine is characterized in that a suction tube with a suction opening is arranged within the loop at the deflection position from the card cylinder to the cleaning device and/or at the deflection position before the card cylinder. Fibers and particles of contamination which are carried by the flats and which reach the interior of the loop are sucked out through the suction tube.

Abstract: A top bar for carding machines formed from an elongated hollow cold drawn annealed profile. The annealing relieves any stresses developed in the profile during the cold drawing and a dimensionally stable top bar results therefrom.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus or arrangement for cleaning a set of flats of a revolving flats card has a pivotable brush for engaging the strips or strip accumulations of the flats and a suction device arranged behind or downstream of the pivotable brush considered with respect to the direction of movement of the flats. According to the invention, a suction nozzle of the suction device is reciprocable over the length or transverse extent of the flats. By means of this arrangement, there is obtained a suction action affording a great cleaning or stripping effect at the flats despite a considerable reduction in the energy required to create the suction action in comparison with heretofore known flat cleaning or stripper arrangements.

Abstract: Improvements in textile raw material card machines of the type of a machine that comprises a structure whereupon a horizontal transversal carding cylinder is rotatively mounted, its revolution surface being provided with barbs and operatively related with an upper carding surface that comprises an endless conveyor formed by a plurality of carding "sheets" (i.e., traveling flats) transversally mounted in relation to the forward direction of said conveyor an articulated among each other, said endless conveyor is disposed in such a way that its lower portion copies correspondingly the curvature of an upper circunferential sector of the carding cylinder, the improvements being that in the endless conveyor section that copies the curvature of the circunferential sector of the carding cylinder, the "sheets" ends are mounted on the periphery of a pair of coaxial idler wheels having approximately the same diameter as that of the cylinder and being freely mounted relative to the cylinder shaft.

Abstract: The cleaning apparatus for cleaning the set of flats of a revolving flats card has a shaft supported by a carrier. The shaft is pivotable about the lengthwise axis of the shaft together with a cleaning brush fixedly mounted on the shaft and extending over the width of the card. In accordance with the invention, the carrier is movably mounted on the card framework in such a manner that at the flats cleaning position the spacing of the path of movement of the cleaning brush from the set of flats is variable, whereby during the pivotal movement of the cleaning brush effecting cleaning of the flats clothing the spacing of the path of movement of the cleaning brush from the set of flats at the flats cleaning position is smaller than during the return movement of the cleaning brush. The cleaning apparatus affords the advantage of improved cleaning of the flats clothing.

Abstract: A carding engine equipped with a series of movable flats (1), each flat being clothed with a plurality of carding elements (2) and having a downwardly facing supporting face (13) at each end of the flat. Each end of each flat is secured to a support member (5) lying below the supporting face, the support member including a support surface (18) engageable with a bend (16) of the carding engine. The flat (1) and support member (5) have been secured together so that the support member is spaced from the supporting face (13) e.g. by a shim (23, 24), such that the distance between the support surface (18) and the plane of the tips of the working carding elements (2) is equal, within a given tolerance, at both ends of all of the flats.

Abstract: A carding engine comprises a carding cylinder (1) rotatable between bends (2a) at each side of the carding engine. A series of flats (20) are provided, each flat having opposite end sections, the flats being movable over an arc of the cylinder surface. Each bend comprises a stationary section (2a) and a plurality of rollers (9, 13, 14) each mounted on the stationary section for rotation about axes parallel to the cylinder axis. The rollers are located such that the radially outermost parts thereof relative to the cylinder form a support path substantially co-axial with the cylinder, the rollers forming a support for the end sections of the flats as they travel over the arc of the cylinder surface.

Abstract: A movable flat assembly for a carding engine. Each of a plurality of flat bars is connected at each end thereof to a chain at the respective side of the carding engine. Each chain comprises a plurality of connected units, each having coupling means for connection to the next adjacent unit and a carrier detachably connected to the flat bar. A support wheel is rotatably mounted on the carrier and is in rolling engagement with the bend at the respective side of the carding engine. Each side wheel has an axis of rotation parallel to the longitudinal mid plane of the respective flat bar and spaced therefrom by a distance that is no less than half the width of the flat bar.

Abstract: A carding machine has a main cylinder, revolving flats provided with clothing and moving along a circumferential portion of the main cylinder, a cleaning apparatus for cleaning the revolving flats and a suction device disposed underneath the apparatus for removing waste generated during operation of the cleaning apparatus. The cleaning apparatus comprises a flat stripping brush mounted for rotation adjacent the traveling path of the flats for cooperating with the clothing of the flats to remove waste therefrom, a brush cleaning roll mounted for rotation at a small distance from the flat stripping brush to continuously remove waste from the flat stripping brush and a waste collecting bin for catching waste thrown by the brush cleaning roll and for guiding the waste to the suction device.

Abstract: An arrangement for driving the traveling flats of a carding machine. A drive gear is readily releasably secured to the carding machine at one end of the flats for driving the flats in one revolving direction and, for driving the flats in another revolving direction, the drive gear is removed from the one end of the flats and readily releasably secured at the other end of the flats.

Abstract: A revolving flats arrangement for carding operation, and which is provided with a drive, guide and deflection element. Flats on both ends slide on guides, and are constructed so as to avoid the use of a flats chain. A driving element pushes ahead the flats in the region of a deflecting roller. Of the two deflecting rollers that are provided, one is used as a driving element. The driving element has engaging members 8, shaped as sprocket portions, and the flats can be pressed against the sliding guide by a belt or an elastic element. The flats are directed along a predetermined path by the sliding guide, and they form on the side facing the card cylinder, at one location, a gap which is associated with a vacuuming device. The clothing of the flats is located on the side facing from the card clothing, and is cleaned by an axially movable cleaning device.

Abstract: An apparatus is illustrated which is especially useful for cleaning the flats of a textile carding machine wherein a rotatable suction conduit has circumferentially spaced slots therein which are successively exposed in cleaning relation to successive flat or carding surfaces by means of a substantially imperforate flexible cover sheet extending about the rotatable suction conduit, being fixed on one end so that the cover extends as a shroud preferably extending in the direction of rotation of the conduit away from the fixed end so as to leave an opening between opposed ends of the shroud. The shroud covers the slots rendering them inactive so that only that slot portion between opposed ends of the shroud actively exert suction. Thus, the suction is concentrated at a specific area, between the ends of the cover, adjacent a limited portion of a flat while permitting rotation of the suction conduit without buildup of excessive lint accumulation as to interfere with the operation of the conduit.

Abstract: A carding method in which the rotary flats of a carding machine are driven intermittently so that each time the flats are driven only a portion (1/6 to 1/4) of the flats opposed to the cylinder of the machine are replaced by fresh flats, thereby decreasing the amount of good fibers in the waste, particularly when carding synthetic fibers.The carding machine is provided with a solenoid clutch in the drive mechanism for the rotary flats and the flat cleaning means, and with a timer for controlling the clutch so that the flats can be intermittently driven at desired drive and stop intervals. For carding polyester fiber, the drive interval may be enough to replace one-fifth of the flats opposed to the cylinder of the machine with fresh flats, and the stop interval may be as much as sixty minutes.