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AN ELECTRIC WAX-CUTTER. 



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gealed wax, which in time interfered with the working of the ma- 

 chine. Secondly, it wa.s necessary to change continually the position 

 of the wax plate, so that while being melted it should always press 



FiGUKi-. 1 (coiiijiiire Fiuure 3). Com])k'tc' inarliine, slio\vin<; tlirce of the 

 arms (tlie two vertical and tlie upjier horizontal) of tlie " needle-bar," the 

 two horizontal l)r;iss bars bound to one of the vertical arms by binding-serews, 

 the short steel rod and (foreshortened) tlie two bars of indurated fibre support- 

 in.ij the sprinji" and ])latinum wire. The lower horizontal arm of the needle bar 

 occupies a " well " which is covered by the horizontal slate platform, raised 

 slif^htly above the table top. In the background are seen the Richards pump 

 attached to a faucet ami the rubber suction tubini;- leading- to tiie bottle btdow 

 the water tank. The electric lamps composing the rheostat are seen below the 

 right-hand drawers of the machine. 



against the near face of the wire, leaving all the melted wax on the 

 far side of the wire. Changing the position of the blowpipe so 

 that the blast was from below instead of from above, proved to be 

 little, if any, improvement on the first method, for thereby the melted 



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