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of ordinary capacity can manage it with perfect ease, as there is 

 no machinery about it requiring any mechanical skill whatever 

 in its management or operation." [Ji bronze medal awarded. 



Boardinan's Patent Blind Wiring Machine. 



Byron Boardman, Norwich, Conn. 



Blind makers have long felt the necessity of a machine for 

 wiring blind rods, which we have never before been able to offer 

 with the confidence that it would be a machine of utility and 

 profit. This machine is simple in its construction and easily 

 managed; is portable, and may be secured to a bench or any con- 

 venient place, by one simple bolt. Tlie principles of the machine 

 consist of guides for conducting the staples to the rod, a device 

 for feeding the staples between the guides, a driver for forcing 

 them into the rod, and a device for moving the rod forward any 

 required distance as each staple is driven, and by simply Avorkiug 

 a lever by the hand or foot, will space off and set from sixty to 

 eighty staples per minute, in the most perfect manner. This 

 machine is adapted to all the different sizes and shaped rods in 

 general use. 



To feed by hand, this machine will set from forty to fifty staples 

 per minute. 



