In the event of a crash caused by overloading, plain rib wires can cause major damage to the card. To avoid this where possible, the 4 and 5 thread card clothing is only available with an interlocking rib design. A plain rib wire could lead to further damage on the rollers of the card as a broken wire could unwind more easily. Interlocking wires have less tendency to spring open due to their rib design.

Special card clothing for specific scopes of application

The special properties of the 4 and 5 thread wires make them the perfect tool in the areas of the textile industry where durability is required. For this reason, they are frequently used in the field of textile recycling. Here, large quantities of textiles must be processed down to the single fiber. Durability at high speeds is not only required when recycling hard-wearing and cut-proof textiles such as jeans; but also foreign parts such as buttons, zippers and rivets must not lead to overloading of the card clothing. Conventional card clothing is not suitable for this application and would lead to production downtimes.

The same applies for manufacturing cellulose fiber (including viscose). In this special application, tightly pressed raw materials must be torn apart and chopped up for fiber production. For this process, the 4 thread wire can be mounted on crushing rollers and must have an extremely durable tooth and rib to withstand damage or breakages. These damages would bring the system to a stop and result in machine downtime at the customer.