| Abstract |
In an apparatus at a carding machine having a cylinder which has a cylindrical, clothed wall surface and at least two radial cylinder ends, and having at least one clothed and/or not clothed machine element located opposite the cylinder clothing at a spacing therefrom and two stationary aide screens, holding devices for work elements, for example sliding bends, stationary carding elements, cylinder coverings, which in use are subjected to heat, are mounted on the side screens. In order to make possible a carding nip or work spacing, between the cylinder clothing and the clothed and/or not clothed counterpart element, that remains constant or virtually constant when heat is generated, the parts influencing the carding nip are so constructed that they undergo no thermal expansion When subjected to the neat acting on them in use so that the carding nip remains substantially constant |