Abstract: In gilling or stretching apparatus wherein a plurality of pin bars are driven and guided in a circuitous path including a stretching run and a return run, with threaded spindles engaging the pin bars along said runs, means are provided to retard the speed of movement of the pin bars before they engage the drive spindles so as to decrease noise in the operating apparatus and reduce wear of the pin bars and spindles. Such retarding means comprises cushioning wheels disposed at the entry end of the stretching run and cushioning rollers disposed at the exit end of the stretching run. The cushioning wheels and rollers have cushioning surfaces arranged to be engaged by the moving pin bars at an acute angle to the tangent to the surface at the point of engagement. Means are provided to insure that the cushioning wheels and rollers rotate at a slower speed than the speed of the travelling pin bars.

Abstract: Apparatus for depositing a sliver of wool into a sliver can with a coiler plate rotated with high circumferential speed. The coiler plate has a pair of calender cylinders excentrically arranged in it and a nozzle for the central inlet of the slivers. One single wire race ball bearing carries the coiler plate and is surrounded by a tooth belt pulley fixed to the latter, thus enabling the tooth belt to run in the plane of rotation of the wire race of the ball bearing. A guiding device for the sliver is arranged at the top of the coiler plate between the nozzle and the nip of the calender cylinders and comprises a pipe socket affixed to the coiler plate and a sliding pipe telescopically slidable along the free end of the pipe socket and being beveled at its lower end.