Description Overview Year unknown, imported from Italy 3 years ago. Working width 2200 mm. Each set consists of 5 big cards (4 cards plus avantren). Machines on mill floor, stopped in 2010. Composition - First Card Set Weighting hopper feeder with electronic scales and independent inverter motor. Infeeding arrangement with 3 rollers. Breast with cylinder of 1300 mm diameter. Main cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers and 7 flyers. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter. Transfer cylinder of 600 mm diameter. Second cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter. Burr crusher (Peralta). Transporter/layer at 90 degrees (crossing the fibres) – first part of 2 cylinders powered with one inverter. Infeeding 3 roller arrangement. Cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter. Burr crusher (Peralta). Transfer transporter horizontal – second segment of 1 cylinder controlled with one inverter. Infeeding 3 roller arrangement. Cylinder of 1500 mm diameter with 7 workers. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter with 7 workers. Horizontal transporting lattice. Cylinder of 1500 mm diameter. Doffer of 1280 mm diameter. Tape divider with 216 tapes of 10.3 mm. Creel – last part of 2 cylinders also controlled by one separate inverter. Composition - Second Card Set Same as first set, with the following differences: only one burr crusher (not two). Second transporter is crane-arm type (not horizontal). Clothing Details On the first cylinder: metal wire clothing. On the rest: elastic clothing. Status of coating: average. Wire coating on avantrens: good.