complete; the reel is then stopped, and a "lease-band" is tied round
each group of 120 threads.

A guide rod moves the thread guide laterally and slowly as the
reeling operation is proceeding so that each thread or round may be
in close proximity to its neighbour without riding on it, and this
movement of the thread extends to approximately 6 in., to accommodate
the 6 cuts which are to form the mill-hank.

Each time the reel has made 120 revolutions and the bell rings, the
reeler ties up the several cuts in the width, so that when the
mill-hank is complete, each individual cut will be distinct. In some
case, the two threads of the lease-band instead of being tied, are
simply crossed and recrossed at each cut, without of course breaking
the yarn which is being reeled, although effectively separating the
cuts. At the end of the operation (when the quantity of cuts for the
mill-hank has been reeled) the ends of the lease-band are tied.

The object of the lease-band is for facilitating the operation of
winding, and for enabling the length to be checked with approximate
correctness.

When the reel has been filled with, say, twenty-four 6-cut hanks,
there will evidently be 3 spyndles of yarn on the reel. The 24
mill-hanks are then slipped off the end of the reel, and the hanks
taken to the bundling stool or frame. Here they, along with others
of the same count, are made up into bundles which weigh from 54 lb.
to 60 lb. according to the count of the yarn. Each bundle contains a
number of complete hanks, and it is unusual to split a hank for the
purpose of maintaining an absolutely standard weight bundle. Indeed,