Clearer

Clearer
CLEARER
A spinners' name for the small carding roller which strips the fibres from the worker roller, returning them to the large cylinder or swift. Also the revolving endless bands clearing the fibre from the drawing rollers on drawing and preparing frames : sometimes termed cleaners. Also the devices which clear yarns from dirt, knots and knubs.

Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.

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