Silver or lap evening apparatus for a carding machine or the like

In a carding machine including a licker-in and a main carding cylinder cooperating therewith;

• a feed roller arranged immediately upstream of the licker-in as viewed in a direction of material feed into the carding machine;
• a feed table cooperating with the feed roller for advancing fiber material to said licker-in;
• said feed table being arranged for executing excursions towards and away from said feed roller as a function of the material quantity passing between the feed roller and the feed table and measuring means operatively connected with said feed table for generating signals representing said excursions;
• motor means connected to said feed roller for rotating said feed roller and means for applying setting signals to said motor for controlling said motor as a function of said excursions;
• the improvement wherein said feed table has a movable first part operatively connected with said measuring means and cooperating with said feed roller to define with said feed roller a measuring location for the fiber material and to execute said excursion towards and away from said feed roller;
• further wherein said feed table has a second part situated between said movable first part and said licker-in;
• said second part cooperating with said feed roller for advancing the fiber material to said licker-in.