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Thread-wax′er.

A bowl of heated shoemaker's wax, through which the thread is conducted in sewing-machines for boots, shoes, and leather.

In the example (Fig 6406), the thread enters the side of the semicircular trough through the tension-aperture under the depressor, thence passes over the shaft and between the two elastic expressor-disks. The trough is heated by a lamp beneath.

See list under sewing-machine, Class C, section 2, pages 2108, 2109.

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