Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 653
ng from these machines, unlike the first varieties, has a little twist: the chief objection to themlies in the power required to drive them, and on this account chiefly, they have been superseded by thebobbin and fly frame in the finer mills; two machines being commonly u.=ed, corresponding to… … SPIKE MACHINE. Burdens Patent. In my improved machine, the feeding in of the rod. thelutting it ofl^ and the pointing the spike, are effeeted in the way previously used by ine for performin? SPIKE MACHINE. 047
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