Carding machine including a device for adjusting the distance between flat bars and the carding cylinder

A carding machine comprising

• (a) a main carding cylinder having a cylinder axis and carrying a cylinder clothing on a circumferential surface thereof;
• said cylinder clothing having clothing points;
• (b) a traveling flats assembly cooperating with said main carding cylinder along a circumferential length portion thereof;
• said traveling flats assembly including
• (1) a plurality of flat bars each having a flat bar clothing cooperating with said cylinder clothing;
• said flat bar clothing having clothing points;
• and
• (2) drive means for moving said flat bars in unison in an endless path;
• (c) a rigid support member fixedly held on a machine frame laterally of said main carding cylinder and having a convex supporting surface;
• and
• (d) a slide guide at least indirectly held on said supporting surface of the support member;
• said slide guide having a convex upper surface supporting said flat bars for sliding motion thereon and an opposite, lower surface;
• a radial distance between clothing points of the flat bar clothings and the carding cylinder clothing being determined and being changeable by one of a shape and position of said slide guide.