Device for a traveling flats assembly in a carding machine

摘要

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 the flat bars to the belt for being carried by the lower belt flight through a working zone in which the flat bars cooperate with the main carding cylinder of the carding machine and for being carried by the upper belt flight through a return zone; a supporting component having an arcuate supporting surface; a first concave slide guide extending parallel to one part of a circumference of the first end sprocket for guiding and holding the flat bars as they travel about the first end sprocket; a second concave slide guide extending parallel to one part of a circumference of the second end sprocket for guiding and holding the flat bars as they travel about the second end sprocket; and a convex slide guide extending through the work zone and lying on the supporting surface of the supporting component. The convex slide guide has an upper surface on which the flat bars glide. The convex slide guide is longitudinally shiftable relative to the supporting component. The first and second concave slide guides and the convex slide guide are mutually separate components and the convex slide guide has opposite first and second terminal portions passing through respective first and second concave slide guides.