Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Petre” in chapter 6, entry furcutter of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...in passes over a small roller, which displays the fur and enables the knife to reach the hairs near the roots, without to any great extent cutting to waste or cutting the same hairs twice.
Petre , 1827, has a pair of rollers, between which the skin passes.
As the skin is bent over one of the rollers, the hairs are displayed and thus laid over a straight edge.
The knives are fixed radially...
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| † | Petre | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| M. Petre | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| William Petre | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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