Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 655
ing 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twist: the chief objection to themlies in the power required to drive them, and on this account chiefly, they have been superseded by thgbobbin and fly frame in the finer mills; two machines being commonly used, corresponding to… … SPIKE MACHINE. Burdens Patent. In my improved machine, the feeding in of the rod, therutting it off, and the pointing the spike, are effected in the way previously used by rne for performin? SPIKE MACHINE. G4; 33413.
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