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 654
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 … the same offices in my ordinary spike machines,or adopted by others; and my improvement forforming the spikes with hook or brad heads, maybe applied to spike machines of various construc-tions. Before the introduction of my improvement,the lieads of hook or brad-headed spikes were,so far as I am…
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