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This continues the reducing of he strands. The spools from the 2-spindle Gill Box are fed into the "rover" and the strands are drafted using drafting rolls (in contrast to the pins used in gilling). Again it is wound onto double-headed wooden spools with more twist added to enable removal in the next operation. The path of the stock is downward. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20412.

Spools from the First Roverr are placed in creel at the top and fed downward to the drafting rolls, drawn down t the size needed for spinning, more twist added for strength (but not enough to interfere with drafting) and then wound onto double-headed wooden spools. The path of the stock is downward. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20413.

Feeds a gill box combination referred to as a backwasher gill. Cleans gilled sliver and oil for combing applied. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20415.

Several combed slivers are fed to gill box and combined into a sigle sliver which is then wund into a ball. This gill box produces two balls simultaneously. An additional gilling will result in "Top" (ball form) which can then be processed into yarn. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20416.

Four Gilled Slivers are wound into "punch balls" which are then placed into the Noble Comb (down low). Thes slivers are fed upward and into the feed boxes which feed the pinned "circles" (great circle (1) and small circles (20) on opposite sides of the comb. The long fibers are drawn off by verticle aprons, the strands from both sides are combined and are moved to the right and the combed sliver is coiled into a can (extreme right). U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20417.

Open gilling: six card slivers are drawn down to one. The machine is a "gill box". It produces a ball containing the six slivers. Strand blending. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20418.

Gilled combed sliver from can gill is fed to the "2-Spindle Gillbox" which winds the drawn sliver onto a double-headed wooden bobbin. The weight per unit length has been reduced in this machine and a small amount of twist added to the strand to enable removal from the bobbin in the next operation. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20419.

The roving is reduced to the desired size (roller drafting) and twist added to ive the desired characteristics to the yarn and wound onto a bobbin, commonly wood (without heads). This spinning frame utilizes metal caps to guide the yarn onto the bobbins. The path of the stock is dwnward. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20480.