tr u00fctzschler in m u00f6nchengladbach germany the carding machine comprises a feed roller 1 licker ins 3 a 3 b 3 c a main carding cylinder 4 a doffer 5 a stripping roller 6 a lap gathering element 7 withdrawing rollers 11 12 roller 11 being behind roller 12 and therefore not visible in fig1 two profiled rollers 21 22 and traveling flats 13 with slowly circulating flat bars 14 curved arrows indicate the rotational directions of the rollers while arrow a indicates the operating direction fiber material flow direction two gathering rollers 18 19 which gather the fiber material to form a heavy fiber lap are arranged between the doffer 5 and the stripping roller 6 the stripping roller 6 rotates clockwise and drops the fiber material from above into the lap gathering element 7 the lap gathering element 7 in this example is funnel shaped see fig3 and is positioned vertically the two withdrawing rollers 11 12 see fig3 are positioned at the lower end of the lap gathering element 7 and are followed in a downward direction by the two profiled rollers 21 22 see fig3 as shown in fig2 the gathering rollers 18 and 19 and the stripping.