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ge-Axles, a bar of metal is fed into the machine and automatically formed into axles, which are cut off as finished. Shaping rollers form the journal and taper the bar of the axle, and dies form the collar by lengthwise pressure of the bar. The rolls act simultaneously upon opposite sides of the bar, and have dies which act coincidently to shape, and sharp edges to cut off at the given length. A pair of rolls are arranged to act perpendicularly to the die-rolls and in concert therewith. Gorton's axle-setting machine. Ax′le-nut. A screw nut on the end of an axlespindle, to keep the wheel in place. See nut. Ax′le-pin. A linch-pin, a fore-lock; a little bar passing through a mortise near the end of the arm, to hold the wheel thereon. Ax′le-set′ting ma-chine′. The Axle-setting Machine (Fig. 506) is for setting the spindles true on the ends of the axle-trees, giving them the required set and gather. The uprights A C on the frame B are adjustable by set scre