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pools are held by spindles, while the wire to be covered is prevented from turning. Sperry's wire-covering machine. Fig. 7272 shows a machine for sizing and finishing covered skirt-wire. The covered braided wire is passed from the supply-reel through the sizing medium, and back and forth over heated drums, and thence back through the sizing medium again to the second coat, and so on, as many times as may be desirable to apply successive coats of size, one over the other. See also Chesney's patent, No. 40,244, October 13, 1863. Frost's machine for finishing skirt-wire. Wire-cut′ter. A nippers for cutting off wire. a (Fig. 7273). Each leg of the cutter terminates in a disk having corresponding openings to receive the wire, which is sheared between their edges when the legs are brought together. Wire-cutting Plyers. b. The edges of the jaws have corresponding slots, with cutting edges, into which the wire is inserted. The instrument is also used as a plyer