Patent ID: 6920671
Filing Date: 2005-07-26
Classification: D01G

Abstract:
1. A sawtooth wire for producing all-steel sawtooth clothing for a doffer and/or a doffing cylinder of a carding machine, the sawtooth wire comprising a plurality of teeth successively arranged in a longitudinal direction of the wire, each tooth having a tooth breast beginning at a tooth bottom and extending in a direction toward a tooth tip, and a tooth back that is connected with the tooth breast by two tooth flanks extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the wire and extends from the tooth tip in a direction of a tooth bottom of a following tooth, at least one of the tooth flanks having at least one profile segment located between the tooth tip and the tooth bottom and provided with profiling, wherein the profile segment has one profile ridge and a plurality of profile grooves running substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the wire, and the profile groove has a lesser profile depth than an adjacent profile groove located on a side of the profile groove facing the bottom of the tooth.