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arrangemen of diagonal or doubling bars ; and a pair of delivering rollers. It is 

 generally termed the ' gill frame,' or ' gill head,' probably from the French word 

 aiguilles (needles), as descriptive of the combs, and to distinguish this machine from 

 those formerly used for the same purpose, which simply consisted of a series of 

 rollers, under and over which the lino \*as passed. 



Figs. 950, 951, 952, show the outline of the present most approved gill spreader or 

 firbt drawing. 



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A A, general frame of the machine ; B, driving pulleys ; c, auxiliary frame for end- 

 less sheets ; D D D D, rollers for carrying the endless sheets or aprons ; E E, con- 

 ductors to guide and slightly condense the four bodies or slivers of line ; F, can for 



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receiving the sliver; o, lever for weight on fropt or drawing roller; H, lever for 

 weight on back roller ; K, delivering-roller shaft, spring, and bell, which, by the 

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