Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ness. In the exami>le, the strips of leather cut fromthe skin to form shoe-binding are thus sorted. Con-nected with the contacting surfaces, betweeu which Fig. 2882. |ga^;^>^->; Leather-Skiving Mac/line,. Latkei-dialing Machttie. position relatively to the adjustable roller D deter-mines the tliickness of the leather which passes be-tween the knife and
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ness. In the exami>le, the strips of leather cut fromthe skin to form shoe-binding are thus sorted. Con-nected with the contacting surfaces, betweeu which Fig. 2882. |ga^;^>^->; Leather-Skiving Mac/line,. Latkei-dialing Machttie. position relatively to the adjustable roller D deter-mines the tliickness of the leather which passes be-tween the knife and roller, the skive passing abovethe knife. Leather-slitting Ma-chine. A machine usedprincipally Iiy harness-makers and saddlers, for cut-ting leatlier into straps; the knives aj-e adjustablein distance from each other, to tit them to formstraps of ditlerent widths. In the , a seriesof knives is placed between guides separated byplates and clamped by a set-screw. A segmental,leather-covered frame is hung so as to be broughtdown over tlie cutters or thrown up therefrom. Theleather, after reduction to the proper thickness, isplaced on the cutters and the block brought downthereon. The leather is then drawn through be-tween the gang of cutters and the segmental plateabove, which form a surface against which the knivescut. Leather-3often-er. A machine for workingdry hiiks or leather, to make them , and en-able them to bo worked
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