SCREWING MACHINES

What are these for?

[PBK]

First tag is from Denmark, or from a Danish-owned company: Kiobenhavn is Danish for Copenhagen, and I believe that Burmesiter & Wains is/was a Copenhagen firm which built engines.

[hasbeen]

Bottle capping machines that screwed the cap on were called screwing machines,don't know if that is what the tag is from.If you "google"screwing machines,you will probably come up with porn sites.

hasbeen

[hollowpointred]

thought this was about something else!

[mech]

Bottle capping machines that screwed the cap on were called screwing machines,don't know if that is what the tag is from.If you "google"screwing machines,you will probably come up with porn sites.

not all porn.. darn!

This screwing machine deals with shoe making. (no idea if your plate is related..just an option)

"The third method, screwing, has come into extensive use since the standard screwing machine was introduced in America by the McKay Sewing-Machine Association, of Boston, Massachusetts, and in Europe by the Blake and Goodyear Company, of London. The standard screw machine, which is an American invention, though the idea was anticipated by a Frenchman named Blanchon in 1856, is provided with a reel of stout screw-threaded brass wire, which by the revolution of the reel is inserted into and screwed through outsole, upper edge and insole. Within the upper a head presses against the insole directly opposite the point of the screw, and the instant screw and head touch the wire is cut level with the outsole. The screw, making its own hole, fits tightly in the leather, and the two soles, being both compressed and screwed firmly together, make a perfectly water-tight and solid shoe. The surface of the insole is quite level and even, and as the work is really screwed, the screws are steady in their position, and they add materially to the durability of the soles. The principal disadvantage in the use of standard screwed soles is the great difficulty met with in removing and levelling down the remains of an old sole when repairs are necessary."

[Smithbrown]

A letter from James Durie was on ebay recently

http://cgi.ebay.com/LEEDS-JAMES-DURI...ayphotohosting

Smithbrown

[Angelo]

NICE ONE!! SMITHBROWN!!

Tony

[PBK]

NICE ONE!! SMITHBROWN!!

I'll second that, and add a well-won "Well done!"

[dugupfinds]

Cheers

[Spitfire Reddie]

SCREWING MACHINES What are these for?

Too make more bunnies ?? hehehehe

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

sheeshs blushing violently

Tropical Tramp

[dg39]

DGjr has walked around the museum all day today asking people what a screwing machine was. You have to remember there are children here.
DG