card clothing

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

Instead of the little hand cards, there are great cylinders covered with what is called "card clothing"; that is, canvas bristling with the bent wires, six or seven hundred to the square inch.

From Makers of Many Things by Tappan, Eva March

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

From Makers of Many Things by Tappan, Eva March

When the lap of cotton leaves the picker it goes to the carding machine, where it is combed into parallel fibers by means of a revolving cylinder covered with wire teeth called card clothing.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by Dooley, William H. (William Henry)

Although the cylinders and the card clothing wore out and had to be replaced, the heavy wooden frames of the early machines remained long in serviceable condition.

From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Cooper, Grace Rogers

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

From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Cooper, Grace Rogers