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The automatic silk-reel is designed for unwinding the thread from the blocks of the throwing-mill and winding it into hanks. Silk-shag. （Fabric.) A coarse, rough, woven silk with a shaggy nap. Silk-siz′ing ma-chine′. See silk-sorting machine. Silk-sort′ing ma-chine′. A machine by which silken threads of various thicknesses are sorted into sizes between certain limits and wound upon separate bobbins, according to size. Silk-sorting machine. Fig. 5088 is Atwood and Leigh's machine. The thread from the bobbin a passes to and between the gage-rollers b c d, which have a certain bearing on each other, and are simultaneously raised or lowered by turning the adjusting-screw e, operating the pivoted lever f, on which the journals of the lower roller rest. The shaft of the upper roller is connected with a lever g, the shorter arm of which is weighted so as to nearly counterbalance the preponderance of the other arm, which is forked at the end, straddling the u