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Screw-wire Fas′ten-ing.


Shoemaking.) Also known as cable-screw wire. A twisted wire for fastening soles and uppers together; a substitute for pegs or stitches. Boots and shoes made by this process have their soles fastened by a flexible wire, twisted into the form of a screw, which an ingenious machine cuts off in proper lengths and drives in without the preliminary punching which has always been considered necessary. The machine is capable of putting on five hundred pairs of soles in a day. See nailing-machine, page 1507; wire; wire-Pegger, etc.

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