card clothing
noun
a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
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How to use card clothing in a sentence
The place of the other is filled by what are called "flats," or narrow bars of iron covered with card clothing.
Makers of Many Things | Eva March TappanThe second machine utilized a horizontal cylinder covered with parallel rows of card clothing.
The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines | Grace L. RogersUnder the cylinder was a concave frame lined with similar card clothing.
The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines | Grace L. Rogers
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