US 4,528,724 AGranted

Card clothing for the flats of a carding machine

AssigneeGraf + Cie AG

InventorWerner Bisquolm

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Abstract

The wire sections forming the wire package are arranged on a profile. The individual wire sections are interconnected by means of an adhesive tape adhered to their feet. A T-slot is located in the profile. Accordingly, the adhesive tape contacts at no place the profile. A locking member is located at one end of the profile. This locking member engages by means of protrusions into the slot. The profile comprises an arresting member. The locking member is clamped onto the arresting member. A recess at the end of the locking member facing the wire package allows an impeccable abutting of the locking member on the wires. The wires comprise smooth, toothless end sections having surface areas extending obliquely inwards. This allows the clips, by means of which the card clothing is clamped onto the flats, to safely grip around the ends of the wires and the locking member to hold them clampingly against the profile.

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Dependent claims

A card clothing for the flats of a carding machine and including a plurality of wires provided each with a row of teeth and a foot, including further an elongated supporting member supporting said plurality of wires threaded thereupon, and including at least one locking member lockingly holding said plurality of wires in a prestressed state against each other, said supporting member comprising an elongated profile provided with side plates extending longitudinally thereof, provided further with a longitudinally extending T-slot and at least one arresting member located at one end of the profile;

each said wire provided at both its ends with a smooth, toothless section;
which said at least one locking member is wedged onto the end of said profile which is provided with said arresting member and in a state of abutting the directly adjacently located wire and of exerting a pressure thereagainst, said locking member having a foot section engaging said longitudinal T-slot and having at both its sides a projecting protrusion;
said side plates of said supporting member abutting the face surfaces of said smooth end sections of said wires as well as the face surfaces of the projecting protrusion of said locking member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.