this aspect of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which like elements are referred to by similar numerals fig1 illustrates the arrangement of three cylinders sometimes referred to as rolls arranged in juxtaposition for a garnetting step according to this aspect of the invention with their axes horizontal showing from the left a main cylinder 11 a doffer 12 and a randomizer 13 rotating in the directions indicated main cylinder and randomizer clockwise with doffer counterclockwise and with their cylindrical surfaces covered with appropriate card clothing with teeth oriented as indicated main cylinder teeth 21 oriented in direction of rotation but doffer teeth 22 and randomizer teeth 23 opposite to directions of rotation thus a carded web 14 is carried by the teeth 21 on main cylinder 11 stripped therefrom by the teeth 22 on doffer 12 and then transferred from the doffer teeth 22 to the randomizer 39 s teeth 23 the randomizer 13 is rotated at a surface speed that is much reduced from the surface speed of the doffer 12 so the parallelized fibers in the web 14 become rearranged in the nip 15 between the doffer 12 and the randomizer 13 and.