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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 1 1 Browse Search
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to make a shear cut against a stationary blade. The skin 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's fur-cutter. 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 to a rotating disk, and 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 to a rotating disk, and shear past the straight-edge, severing the hairs with nearness to the skin determined by the set of the machine. Williams, 1832, has a frame with a series of parallel knife-edges presented upwardly. Over them is a block carrying an oblique knife which makes a shear cut upon the fixed knives in succession. Flint's fur-cutting knife, 1837, has an edge on one jaw and a cushion on the other. See also Harlow's patent for cutting bristles, 1868. 2. A mechanical contrivance for shaving th