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Steam-heated cutter

Patent drawing showing a horizontal shaft with a tapering hollow reamer, a large drive pulley labeled D, steam inlet and exhaust pipes, and a gage-arm mechanism, alongside a separate detailed cross-section and side view of the reamer's knife arrangement.

MACHINE FOR MAKING PHONOGRAM-BLANKS.Thomas A. Edison · November 27, 1888

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