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What is a doffer?

What is a doffer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (textile manufacturing) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.
  2. A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.
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The slowly turning doffer removes the fibres from the swift and carries them to the fly comb where they are stripped from the doffer.
In the Vaillancourt family, three teenaged daughters, worked as a stitcher, winder, and doffer, supporting the rest of their family with their earnings.
Production of silage under a temperature of 27-35 degrees C will turn out doffer with good quality fresh, green, and not affected by fungus.
In the field of technical nonwovens, Trutzschler Card Clothing is offering new metallic wires for roller cards application on doffer and condenser.
SiroLock and EvoStep wire designs for doffer and worker wires are displayed on a nonwovens card made of acrylic glass.
Previously she was a spinner and doffer at Stevens Linen Associates in Dudley for several years.

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