toward the beam 20 and toward the rear of the apparatus as best shown in fig1 and 6 the tray 23 has bracket means 24 for attaching it to the support arms 22 and the details of this bracket means are unimportant to the invention the tray has converging side walls 25 which converge toward the rear of the apparatus and these side walls serve to funnel the textile web toward a centrally located trumpet 26 which is fixedly mounted to the top wall of the support beam 20 by a bracket 27 attached to the beam as at 28 fig7 the rearwardly tapering end of the infeed tray 23 is suitably supported on the center portion of the beam 20 the forward wide end of the tray is entirely open to receive the textile stock from a doffer type roll of a carding machine garnett or the like not shown a pair of inclined and converging air nozzles 29 mounted on the arms 22 and overlying the forward corners of the tray 23 serve to gather the loosely defined textile web toward the center of the tray and to lift the stock from the tray or pan for directing it into the.