[transcript: 13779 Carding Cotton, Dallas Cotton Mills, Dallas, Texas.
The large cylinder bearing the flat cards with their wire teeth, is usually 50 inches in diameter and 40 inches wide on the face, cylinder is covered to prevent drafts of air from disturbing the straightened fibres and making an uneven film. The smaller cylinder which receives the cotton from the large revolving cylinder is the doffer; it is 24, 26, or 27 inches in diameter and 40 inches wide on the face. Kit is covered with teeth which are somewhat finer than those on the main cylinder. It revolves slowly in the opposite direction to the large cylinder.
The beautiful filmy sheet of cotton as it leaves the doffer is first trained by hand and guided into the trumpet from which it emerges as a delicate rope-like strand. It is now called sliver. To counteract its tendency, to expand it is fed to two calender rolls, the top one quite heavy. These pull it through the trumpet hole and pass it on to a device, above the rolls, called the coiler, Through a trumpet hole in the top of the coiler and between two small calender rolls, the sliver reaches a can, 36 inches high and 12 inches in diameter, in which the coilei very neatly deposits it.
Copyright 1905 by Keystone View Company.]
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