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intervention of gearing between it and tho front roller, is caused to ring when any 

 desired length of sliver is delivered. 



a a, the iron^ drawing roller or boss ; b b b, tho wooden or pressing roller, by tho 

 pressure of which upon a a tho sliver is held during the greater velocity of these rollers 



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over that of c ; the holding or back rollers elongate in exact proportion to its aug- 

 mentation ; the holding roller c is in like manner pressed against another in order to 

 assist the ' gills ' in retaining the fibres ; k k, hooked rods to connect the weighted 

 lever h with the holding roller c, and by the pressure thus caused insure its effect ; 

 d the sheet or surface of ' gills ' composed of separate bars, as seen at figs. 954. 955 ; 

 e, rubber or cleaner of pressing roller b; f f, conductors to contract 'laterally the 



954 



955 



sliver at the moment of drawing ; g, plate of metal having diagonal openings at an 

 angle of 45 (this plate is sometimes called the 'doubling bars,' having been first 

 made of separate bars) to the original course of the sliver, in order to enable it to bo 



956 



in a rectangular direction and guided to the delivering rollers h h ; this diivo- 

 the sliver is more distinctly sceii at/#, 952 ; f, hanger or connector of pressing 



turned 



tiou of the sliver 



