(i) This is the process of arranging the fibers in a parallel fashion. This is necessary for all staple fibers; otherwise, it would be impossible to produce fine yarns from what is originally a tangled mass.
(ii) Before the raw stock can be made into yarn, the remaining impurities must be removed, the fibers must be disentangled, and they must be straightened.
(iii) The lap is passed through a beater section and drawn on a rapidly revolving cylinder covered with very fine hooks or wire brushes.
(iv) A moving belt of wire brushes slowly moves concentrically above this cylinder. As the cylinder rotate, the cotton is pulled by the cylinder through the small gap under the brushes, the teasing action remove the remaining trash, disentangles the fibers and arranges them in a relatively parallel manner in the form of a thin web.
(v) This web is drawn through a funnel – Shaped device that molds it into a round ropelike mass called the card sliver (about thickness of a broom stick).
