Card Clothing Design and Maintenance
topic
Card wire clothing design parameters including wire point density, point angle, height, and gauge determine the carding intensity and fibre individualisation effectiveness, with flat and cylinder wire wearing progressively dulling from the initial sharp condition requiring grinding and stripping maintenance intervals of 500 to 2000 tonnes of processed fibre to maintain nep removal efficiency.
Role
Maintains the wire clothing condition that determines carding efficiency throughout the clothing life cycle, with sharp, correctly set wire points providing the aggressive fibre-to-fibre scrubbing action that removes neps while blunt or incorrectly spaced wires generate neps rather than removing them, directly impacting yarn imperfection count and appearance grade.