Save the date for October 6-8, 2018 in Topeka for the next League Annual Conference. All conference events will be held at the Capitol Plaza Hotel/Maner Conference Center & Kansas Expocentre. More details will be posted at a later date. Registration & Hotel Information: Conference registration and hotel blocks will open July 1, and the full registration brochure will be included with the July issue of the Kansas Government Journal.
Industrially carded cotton is prepared on large spinning drums which are capable of processing high volumes of cotton at once. For rapid processing, cotton spinning machines are usually located close to the carding area, ensuring that minimal time is wasted transferring cotton products around a factory.
The carding machine consists mainly of one big roller with smaller ones surrounding it. All of the rollers are covered with small teeth, and as the cotton progresses further on the teeth get finer (i.e. closer together). The cotton leaves the carding machine in the form of a sliver; a large rope of fibres. In a wider sense carding can refer to the four processes of willowing, lapping, carding and drawing.