Combing roller

An improved combing roller for an open-end spinning machine, wherein a metallic wire having teeth is mounted on a body of said combing roller, said body comprises a main cylindrical body and a pair of flanges coaxially formed at both ends of said main body, a base portion of said metallic wire is pressed into a right hand or left hand helical groove formed in said main body and the working direction of said metallic wire coincides with the rotational direction of said combing roller, said improvement comprising a terminal portion of said metallic wire facing one of said flanges on a side of the roller corresponding to the direction of progress of an imaginary right hand screw imaginarily engaged with said right hand helical groove or an imaginary left hand screw imaginarily engaged with said left hand helical groove when said imaginary screws are turned in the direction corresponding to the rotational direction of said combing roller, said terminal portion of said metallic wire provided with at least one tooth inclined toward said flange.