CIRCULAR COMB HAVING A COMB SEGMENT AND AN ALIGNING SEGMENT

Disclosed is a circular comb (16) serves for fastening to a shaft (14), which is rotatable about an axis of rotation (13) in a combing direction (26), of a comber (1) which is intended to comb textile fibers (2) and has fixed drawing-off rollers (7, 8, 9, 10) for the combed textile fibers (11). The circular comb (16) has, on a circular-comb main-body unit (17) having an outer side (18), a combing segment (19) having a plurality of combing bars (22) which are arranged on the outer side (18) of the circular-comb main-body unit (17) and are equipped with outwardly protruding combing teeth (23), the front combing-teeth flanks of which, as seen in the combing direction (26), are each inclined in the combing direction (26), and an aligning segment (20) which is arranged on the outer side (18) of the circular-comb main-body unit (17) and is equipped with a plurality of outwardly protruding aligning elements (25), the front aligning-element flanks of which, as seen in the combing direction (26), are each inclined cou