An old engraving of a shoe-edge trimming machine from the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The shoe or boot is mounted on a jack or last. It is then fed by the operator against the trimming knife which cuts of the surplus sole. The blade can be angled to give a bevelled edge to the leather sole.
An old engraving of a shoe-edge trimming machine from the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The shoe or boot is mounted on a jack or last. It is then fed by the operator against the trimming knife which cuts of the surplus sole. The blade can be angled to give a bevelled edge to the leather sole.
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