card clothing

noun

1. 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.

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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