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Splint-ma-chine′.

A machine for riving or planing small slats or splints for use in making woven-slat blinds, baskets, box-stuff for millinery or fruit, etc. See slivering-machine.

See patents, Gleason, October 9, 1841.

No. 19,971. Wheeler, April 13, 1858.

No. 26,268. Horton, November 29, 1859.

No. 101,021. Jordan, March 22, 1870.

No. 115,110. Scow, May 23, 1871.

No. 138,378. Clark, April 29, 1873.

Splint-machine.

Fig. 5442 is a machine for cutting splints for matches and other purposes. The frame has a box, in which the material to be worked up is placed. The cutters are attached to a slide, worked by a connecting rod from the crank-shaft, and the material is pressed down by a weight. The machine cuts 3,500 splints per minute. See also excelsior-machine, page 815.

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