of the web going into a cross lapper application_number US 1993887 A description the method disclosed herein and illustrated in the figure provides a web of fibers 2 which has been carded in a conventional manner on a card system the width of said web of fibers is varied and only limited by the width of the machinery through which it travels the carded web 2 is conveyed to a cross lapper 10 the web travels and is deposited on a receiving conveyor 20 traveling in direction 21 and is rolled onto a wind up roller 31 the carded web 2 is deposited on the moving conveyor 20 so that the leading edge 3 coming off the cross lapper lies flush with and touches edge 4 of the prior layer in the apparatus the lower cart 15 travels from left to right on the moving conveyor the web is laid onto the conveyor 20 with the speed of the incoming web and the conveyor adjusted to produce the edge to edge contact described above the layers of web thus deposited are consolidated into a homogeneous sheet of fibers by means conventional to the art for insuring the layers of web are prevented from ply separating in subsequent processing the web of fibers.