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Carding Machine Overview and Process

The carding machine opens, cleans, and blends fibers to produce a sliver for spinning. It has several parts including a feeder hopper, cylinder, brushes, doffer, and drawing rollers. The carding process involves opening fibers with the cylinder and brushes, removing impurities, drafting the fibers into parallel alignment, and forming them into a sliver using the drawing rollers and trumpet guide. The main objectives of carding are to separate fibers, clean them, reduce neps and short fibers, blend fibers, and orient and draft them into a sliver for subsequent spinning.

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Carding Machine Overview and Process

The carding machine opens, cleans, and blends fibers to produce a sliver for spinning. It has several parts including a feeder hopper, cylinder, brushes, doffer, and drawing rollers. The carding process involves opening fibers with the cylinder and brushes, removing impurities, drafting the fibers into parallel alignment, and forming them into a sliver using the drawing rollers and trumpet guide. The main objectives of carding are to separate fibers, clean them, reduce neps and short fibers, blend fibers, and orient and draft them into a sliver for subsequent spinning.

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The Purposes or Objectives of Carding:

The carding is the first machine in the spinning preparation that delivers a
sliver. The main objectives of the card are:

 To open the flocks into individual fibers.


 Cleaning and elimination of impurities.
 Reduction of neps.
 Elimination of short fibers.
 Fiber blending.
 Fiber orientation.
 Sliver formation.

Parts of Carding Machine:

1. Feeder Hopper
2. Linker in Cylinder
3. Drum / Cylinder
4. Revolving Slates
5. Brushing Rollers
6. Doffer
7. Drawing Unit
8. Trumpet Guide
9. Grid Roller
[Link] Cane

Figure 2: Different parts and material flow through carding machine


Technological Points in Carding:
There are two types of feeding in the cards:

1. Feeding material in the form of scutcher lap.


2. Flock feed system (flocks are transported pneumatically)

Carding Process in Spinning:

Point to back action:

Taker In:
Linear density of the lap is very good and it is easier to maintain (uniformity)
the whole installation is very flexible deviation in card output will be nil, as
laps can be rejected. Lap run out is an additional source of fault, as it should
be replaced by a new lap. More good fibers loss during lap change more load
on the taker-in, as laps are heavily compressed. This is opened in it and pass
through small grids on it.

The purpose of taker-in is to pluck finely opened flocks out of the feed batt, to
lead them over the dirt eliminating parts like mote knives, combing segment
and waste plates, and then to deliver the fibers to the main cylinder. In high
production cards the rotational speed ranges from 700-1400.

Point to point action:

Cylinder:
The cylinder get opened with sharp teeth and then pass over to doffer. High
performance in carding due to high degree of openness of feed web. Cylinder is
located below the plate is pressed against the cylinder by spring force.

Brushes:
The cotton fibers that are on the teeth of cylinder are then cleaned by the
brushes at the upper part of cylinder.

Revolving Flats:
The fiber batt runs downwards without diversion directly into the teeth of the
taker-in which results in gentle fiber treatment. This helps to reduce faults in
the yarn. The revolving flats revolve the brushes on it, so the cotton on the
cylinder teeth will eliminate the impurities.

Back to back action:

Doffer:
The doffer take the cleaned cotton same way to cylinder from taker in, and
passes to drawing unit.
Drawing Unit:
The drawing unit stretched and parallelize the cotton and changes into
individual fiber form, then pass to trumpet guide.

Trumpet Guide:
The straightened fiber collectively gets in trumpet guide and intermix in it to
form a sliver.

Sliver Cane:
The sliver cane stores the sliver in it for further processes.

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