Card Wire

Card wire (1) comprising in its longitudinal direction (L), consecutive teeth (2) which are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction (L) by a pitch (3),

• wherein the teeth (2) are bounded in the longitudinal direction (L) by a tooth face (4) on a first side and by a tooth back (5) on a second side,
• wherein, looking downwards in a height direction (H) of the card wire (1), the tooth face (4) and the tooth back (5) of consecutive teeth (2) merge in a tooth base (6) and, looking upwards in the height direction (H) of the card wire (1), form a tooth tip (8),
• wherein the tooth depth (7) is defined by a greatest distance, in the height direction (H) of the card wire (1), from the tooth tip (8) to the tooth base (6),
• wherein the ratio of pitch (3) to tooth depth (7) is less than 1.1,
• wherein an interspace (9), measured at right angles to a tangent to an inflection point (10) between tooth back (5) and tooth base (6), between this inflection point (10) and an opposite tooth face (4) is greater than a quarter of the pitch (3).