Grinding device for sharpening the clothing of a carding cylinder

Abstract

A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder having a circumferential surface carrying a cylinder clothing thereon; and a cooperating with the main carding cylinder. The traveling flats assembly includes a plurality of clothed flat bars arranged in a series and a flat drive for moving the clothed flat bars in an endless path having a working path portion along which the flat bar clothings cooperate with the cylinder clothing and a return path portion; and a grinding assembly for sharpening the cylinder clothing. The grinding assembly includes a grinding flat bar adapted to be positioned in the series of clothed flat bars to be moved by the flat drive in unison with the clothed flat bars; and a grinding element mounted on the grinding flat bar. The grinding element is in a contacting relationship with the cylinder clothing along the working path portion of the traveling flats assembly.

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