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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337500 | Card flat bar for a carding machine A carding machine, includes a carrier element with a clothing support part (card flat heel). Two end head parts are associated with the carrier element. The carrier element and the end head parts form at least three assembled components, and the end head parts compr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7073229 | Apparatus on a carding machine for textile fibres, for example, cotton, synthetic fibres or the like, comprising revolving card flat bars equipped with clothing In an apparatus on a carding machine for textile fibres, for example, cotton, synthetic fibres and the like, comprising revolving card flat bars equipped with clothing, in which a space is present between the tips of the card flat clothings and the tips of the cylin... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6691373 | Slide guide assembly for traveling flats in a carding machine 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 orien... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6408488 | Device for setting the clearance between cooperating clothings in a fiber processing machine A fiber processing machine includes a roll having a circumferential surface provided with a first clothing having clothing points; a counter member having a surface provided with a second clothing cooperating with the first clothing and having clothing po... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6317931 | Distance measuring device in a spinning preparation machine A fiber processing machine includes a rotary roll provided with a peripheral clothing; a counter element having a part cooperating with the roll clothing; a sensor stationary relative to the counter element and having a sensing portion facing said roll cl... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6081971 | Device for a traveling flats assembly in a carding machine A traveling flats assembly of a carding machine includes first and second end sprockets; an endless belt supported by the first and second end sprockets; a plurality of flat bars arranged in a series along the belt; a coupling arrangement for connecting t... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6047446 | Carding machine including a device for adjusting the distance between flat bars and the carding cylinder 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 portio... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5918349 | Carding machine including a device for adjusting the distance between flat bars and carding cylinder A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder having a cylinder axis and a cylinder clothing; and traveling flats cooperating with the main carding cylinder along a circumferential length portion thereof. The traveling flats include a plurality of fl... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5894636 | Method for producing a card sliver and carding machine therefor Method for producing a card sliver and carding machine therefor. The flexible bend of a card is set automatically by the machine control by means of a controllable actuator system on the basis of a wear characteristic, this characteristic representing the... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5845368 | Setting device for a carding engine A carding engine having a main toothed cylinder, a taker-in, a doffer, and a revolving flats assembly positioned above the outer periphery of the cylinder in the region between the taker-in and the doffer, in which a fixed bend and a flexible bend are adj... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5625924 | Method for producing a card sliver and carding machine therefor Method for producing a card sliver and carding machine therefor. The flexible bend of a card is set automatically by the machine control by means of a controllable actuator system on the basis of a wear characteristic, this characteristic representing the... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5271125 | Slideway for travelling flats in a carding machine A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder; a lateral support component situated laterally of the main carding cylinder; and a travelling flats assembly situated above the main carding cylinder and having a working path along an upper circumferenc... | 12/21/1993 |
| 4996745 | Flat for a carding engine A flat for a carding engine comprises an elongate support bar (11) designed to be supported at each end thereof on a bend at the respective side of the carding engine. Carding elements (19) are carried by an elongate carrier (14), the support bar and carr... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4987647 | Securing a flat head to a travelling flat chain bar using coupling pin and circlip means in a textile carding machine 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 ele... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4766650 | Traveling flat mounting means 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... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4757575 | Carding engine; and to movable flats therefor 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 membe... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4738005 | Adjusting device for operating elements of cards or carding rollers An adjustment device is provided with a regulating element and with a bearing which receives the operating element. The bearing is supported on a fixed guiding surface and, by means of an adjustment surface, on the regulating element. The bearing can be m... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4580318 | Carding engines 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. Ea... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4528722 | Card In a card, to avoid passage of fibers or fiber flocks over the edge of clothing into a gap, a covering band is pressed against an internal surface of the fiber-guiding roll or cylinder and a surface lying opposite the fiber-guiding roll. The covering band... | 07/16/1985 |
