“SEWING TIMBER” TOGETHER
City Man’s Unusual Machine Sewing timber together is the impression given by a unique machine designed and built by a Christchurch engineer, Mr J Ward. The machine operates like a huge paper stapler, driving wire staples through wood up to three inches thick.
Hydraulically operated the machine exerts up to seven tons of pressure on the timber and. fed from two coils, cuts, shapes and drives the staples at the rate of 7000 an hour. It can be adapted to laminate timber In a great variety of shapes and sizes, or as a nailing machine. The unit, weighing about a ton, has been used by a local firm for manufacturing cable drums. All the components have been manufactured locally, except for the seven and-a-half horse power engine.
Another machine, which will be the only one of its type in the countrv. has been commissioned by a Christchurch firm for biting designs around the bottom of metal lampshades. A variety of dies can be fitted so that the machine can “nibble” different patterns.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29232, 16 June 1960, Page 16
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