Graf has been offering high quality and innovative products like metallic card clothings, flexible flat clothings and stationary flats for cards for the nonwovens and short staple industry since 1917 and provide service to its customers worldwide. Graf having its in Rapperswil, close to Zurich, reflects its leading position in flat and circular card clothings in its new product range, too.
Graf continues to provide advantage in time and cost to its customers with innovative features added to its products. Graf having recently offered a new flat top system, which can reduce the stoppage time by up to 70 % aims to provide important advantages to its customers with this product. Flexible flat clothings are one of the key components in a carding machine. To ensure an evenly high quality of the cardingsliver, they have to be replaced regularly. For this process the card needs to be stopped. To keep these down-times as short as possible, Graf developed a new flat top system, which can reduce the stoppage time by up to 70 %. The so-called EasyTop is applied on flat bars designed for magnetic attachment. The EasyTop system guarantee high reliability in operation and resist even highest carding forces, and can be used for aluminium flat bars with magnetic attachment technology from all manufacturers. EasyTop are available for working widths of 40“, 51” and 60” for types of flat clothings.
Another product range presented by Graf is X-Comb used for combing process. The X-Comb segments can be used on comb-bodies requiring individual segments from other manufacturers. The combing segments made from metallic clothings that undergo a special surface treatment, which substantially reduces the running-in period.
The New Comb Series: FlexComb
The new circular comb series FlexComb, with height adjustable geometry, a detachable spoiler and a 130° combing surface has been developed for high-performance combers of the latest generation and thanks to the special surface treatment as well as efficient trash removal with optimal fiber selection guarantees cost effectiveness. In addition Graf presented their new DABM flat striping machine for the first time in Istanbul. The DABM allows safe, gentle and correct removal of worn flexible flats from the flat bars. The three-phased AC-Motor featuring a pneumatic clamping device for all type of flat bars is available with an optional flat bar cleaning station, which are merely two advantages of this new service machine. Applicable for flat bars of card types from various manufacturer with working widths from 40” – 60”, the DABM allows straight-forward and efficient mechanical removal of worn flexible flats from the flat bars.
