fenced. The arrangement of the wheels on the gear side is very
similar to that shown in connection with the breaker card in Fig. 14,
and therefore requires no further mention. Outside the boxing comes
the covers, shown clearly at the back of the machine in Fig. 15, and
adapted to be easily and quickly opened when it is desired to
examine the rollers and other parts.

The slivers, after having passed amongst the pins of the various
rollers, and been subjected to the required degree of draft, are
ultimately doffed as a thin film of fibres from the pins of the
cylinder and pass between the drawing rollers to the conductor. The
conductor of a finisher card is made in two widths, so that half the
width of the film enters one section and the other half enters the
other section. These two parallel sheets, split from one common sheet,
traverse the two conductors and are ultimately delivered as two
slivers about 6 inches above the point or plane in which the 10 or 12
slivers entered, and on to what is termed a "sliver plate." The two
slivers are then guided by horns projecting from the upper surface
of the sliver plate, made to travel at right angles to the direction
of delivery from the mouths of the conductors, and then united to
pass as a single sliver between a pair of delivery rollers on the
left of the feed and delivery side and finally into a sliver can.

In special types of finishing cards, an extra piece of
mechanism--termed a draw-head--is employed. The machine illustrated
in Fig. 15 is provided with this extra mechanism which is supported
by the small supplementary frame on the extreme right. This special
mechanism is termed a "Patent Push Bar Drawing Head," and the
function which it performs will be described shortly; in the
meantime it is sufficient to say that it is used only when the