BUITEMS (Baluchistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and

Management Sciences)
Department Of Textile Engineering
Quality and Excellence in Education
www.buitms.edu.pk

CARDING MACHINE
Carding Process:
A process in the manufacture of spun yarns whereby the staple is opened, cleaned, aligned, and formed into a continuous, untwisted strand called carding
process.
Objectives of Carding Machine:
1. Opening to individual fibers.
2. Elimination of impurities.
3. Elimination of dust.
4. Disentangling of naps.
5. Elimination of short fibers.
6. Fiber blending.
7. Fiber orientation.
8. Sliver formation.
Action in Carding Machine :
The following actions take place in a carding machine.
1) Combing action 2) Carding action 3) Stripping action4) Doffing action
Working Principle of Carding Machine:
Supplying raw material by ducting pipe. 2) Chute feed evenly compress a bat of 500-900 kfex. 3) Transport roller
forwards the material to feed plate. 4) Feed arrangement consists of feed roller & feed plate. 5) Taker in opens
the material to small flocks. When the material passes to main cylinder, mote knives, grid bars &
carding segments eliminate a great part of impurities. 6) Grid equipment. 7)Suction dust to carry away the waste.
8) Main cylinder & fixed carding segments designed to assist the carding operation. 9) The main carding
operation occurs between flats & cylinder. Flats compromise 80 to 116individual carding bars combined into a
band moving on an endless path. 30 to 46 flats are always in action. 10) Cleaning unit from flats. 11) Grid or
cover plate. 12)The doffer combines the fiber into a web. Because of its substantially lower speed relative to the
cylinder. 13) Stripping device & doffing master draw the web from the doffers. 14) Calendar roller calendars the
cotton & moves that toward. 15) At last by can & coiler the fabric is produced.

SOP FOR CARDING MACHINE