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.

The place of the other is filled by what are called "flats," or narrow bars of iron covered with card clothing.

The second machine utilized a horizontal cylinder covered with parallel rows of card clothing.

Under the cylinder was a concave frame lined with similar card clothing.

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