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
, immediately before being driven into the shoe. The Wire-screuinr/ Machine connects the soles by theinsertion of bits of screw-threaded wire. The wire is takenfrom a coil, which rotates bodily in a horizontal plane while unwinding, and thus screws the wire intoa die, which while cutting the thread… … \ The Scam-Rubber is represented in Fig. 3912. 3912. The shoe is placed on the stationary arm of themachine, and the metal disk, pressed down by thespring shown, is rubbed over the scam to smoothand flatten it. The Beating-oat Machine is used for beatingout the soles after the upper is sewed on,…
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