Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 794
achine is employed to wind itup. There is a peculiar process of drying and seasoning. Another machine points and bevels theedge so as to make the pegs pointed. As it is essential always to have the bevel at a certain angle,Mr. B. F. Sturtevant (the inventor of these devices) contrived a machine to… … the peg-strip as above described will be readily understoodfrom Fig. 3910. About 900 pegs are inserted per minute.The peg strip measures about 100 ft. in length, and on anaverage there is 22 in. of pegging in a shoe. From 4 to6 pegs per inch are commonly driven in, but there is agreat variety of…
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