Dry Lay & Carded Nonwovens

From INDA's Nonwoven Glossary:

Dry forming or dry laying
A process for forming a web from dry fibers by using carding equipment.

Dry laid nonwoven
Dry laid web of fibers that has been bonded by one or more bonding techniques to produce a fabric with integrity.

Dry laid web
A web of fibers produced by the dry laying process.

Card
A machine designed to separate fibers from impurities, align and deliver them to be laid
down as a web or to be further separated and fed to an air laid process. The fibers in the web are aligned with each other predominantly in the machine direction. The machine consists of a series of rolls and drums that are covered with many projecting wires or metal teeth.

Card clothing
The wire teeth or serrated flutes that cover the working surfaces of a card.

Carded nonwoven
A nonwoven produced from a carded web that has been bonded by one or more technologies to provide fabric integrity.

Carded web
A web of fibers produced by carding.

Carding
A process for making fibrous webs in which the fibers are aligned either parallel or randomly in the direction that the carding machine produces the web.