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Hand-peg′ger.

A portable pegging-machine, operated by hand and fed around the shoe, the operator holding the machine in a vertical position and turning a crank which sets all its working parts in motion.

The illustration shows a machine which is held upon the sole of the boot or shoe by one hand of the operator, who turns the crank with the other. The awl is first driven through the sole, and as it rises the machine feeds itself along the distance between the pegs, which brings the peg end of the strip over the hole just punched; the peg is then cut off and driven down by the plunger which holds it, and the end trimmed off by the machine.

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