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Twisting Corkscrews

This article is from

American Tool Making and Interchangeable Manufacturing

by Joseph

Vincent Woodworth published by The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company in

1905. The book was illustrated with original drawings by the author.

A Machine for Twisting Corkscrews

The machine here shown [Fig. 1] was made for twisting wire corkscrews of the type

shown above. The wire before the twisting is shown below the corkscrew. It is

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looped

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at one end and bent, while the other end is pointed. The cutting off of the length of wire

and the pointing of one end are accomplished in one operation by means of two simple

tools in the monitor; the tool used for pointing being a

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needle

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box-tool, and the one

for cutting off a

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chopping-tool.

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The second operation on the wire lengths, that of

bending and forming the

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loop,

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is done by hand, with a simple bending fixture not of

sufficient interest to show here.

Figure 1

The drawings [Figs 1, 2, and 3] of the twisting-machine show its construction and little

description will be necessary. The machine consists of, first, a body or main casting on