Tanks to a first-rate conception and construction based on the best available materials, combined with an entirely revised design, the latest range of GALAXY 2000 carding sets allows both: High speed production of top quality yarns in the various production fields : carpets, blankets, weaving or hosiery; in wool and/or synthetics, pure or blended. Better service and easier supervision. Available with 2500 or 3000 mm working widths, the GALAXY 2000 HDB carding sets provide an excellent web regularity mainly obtained from perfect machining of the cylinders and from the feed regulator SERVOLAP ®. The successful use of a special first quality cast iron for the manufacturing of the rails and the strongly ribbed frames, combined with the cylinders dynamically balanced for high speed operation, leads to a machine with exceptional stability and robustness, guaranteeing an outstanding reliability.

> DRIVES

As an alternative to the traditional mechanical drive with variable pulleys and change gears, GALAXY carding sets can be fitted with the MECATRONIC ® drive, where the main components are driven through individual AC motors controlled by inverter drives. This enables to obtain accurate settings on each individual motor.

Permanent visualization of all speeds on a synoptic panel and the display of eventual error messages guarantee easier operation and service of the machine.

The MEMOLINK ® option makes possible the recording of the data of each batch on a 3.5" floppy disk allowing it to be reproduced at a later date without prior presetting.

> CARD FEED

The feed of our carding sets can be :

• Manual from a storage bin;
• Semi-automatic by bale tipper and double hopper, which provides a large autonomy between loadings;
• Automatic by the chute feed on the hopper in conjunction with a bin emptier.
  
  

  The volumetric hopper CVT with adjustable chute feed with level control by emitting/ receiving infra-red cells makes possible the highest production rates.
  
  
  

> CARD CONFIGURATION

The GALAXY Carding sets, from HDB 1823, can be made up of 2 (scribbler+ finisher cards) or 3 (scribbler + intermediate + finisher cards) machines with 3, 4 or 5 cylinders according to the material processed and the characteristics of the yarn to be produced.

The PERALTA cleaning apparatus, with adjustable hydraulic pressure, consists mainly of two 300 mm dia. hard cast cylinders perfectly polished, surface tempered and rectified with the purpose to remove, by crushing, the impurities and hard ends (various wastes, hard ends, etc) while preserving the fibre properties. At the delivery side, the web is stripped and condensed by a 300 mm dia. DOFFING DEVICE with special card clothing and comb motion.

The broad band feed connects two cards in tandem or in side-by-side arrangement and feeds the second card with a folded web of adjustable width, with the fibre oriented in the delivery direction (the same direction as they left the first card). This broad band feed assures an excellent cross card regularity and has a considerable blending action.

> WEB DIVISION

The web is divided into slubbings that will be condensed by rubbing prior to winding into bobbins. The following division systems are available :

> Endless tape;
> One tape for two ends (figure-8 tapes);
> One tape for one end (series tapes).

in combination with :

> single rubbing;
> double rubbing;
> triple rubbing.

according to materials to be processed and final products to be achieved.


The eccentrics shafts are driven by one motor with frequency inverter that provides a great flexibility, a high setting accuracy and considerable rubbing speeds. Reinforced cast iron frames have been specially designed to absorb the vibrations, namely for the support of the eccentrics shafts.

The winding of the slubbings into bobbins can be made either on a Traversing Creel for bobbins up to 400 mm dia. or on a Tandem Creel producing wider cheeses for bobbins up to 450 mm dia.

When using the Tandem Creel we recommend the use of an independent elevating platform to facilitate the service of the machine, namely the doffing of the bobbins.

Optionally, the machine can be delivered with an automatic doffing system for the Tandem Creel which makes possible doffing, on the run, of the full bobbins and the replacement by empty sticks.