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Many everyday items have stick-on labels, which were either applied by a machine or by hand, and most likely were peeled from the backing paper using some sort of label dispenser. Some of the more common applications are bulk mailing , manufacturing , packaging , food and beverage , fast food , and photo labs.
It is one of the most famous coin manipulation feats. It is also known as the coin roll, knuckle roll, and the steeplechase flourish, and can also be performed with poker chips, slugs, or other similar implements. The manipulation is generally performed on the first phalanx bone of each finger of one hand. After the coin has been flipped over ...
Egg separator: A slotted spoon-like utensil used to separate the yolk of an egg from the egg white. Egg slicer: Slicing peeled, hard-boiled eggs quickly and evenly. Consists of a slotted dish for holding the egg and a hinged plate of wires or blades that can be closed to slice. [3] Egg timer: Used to correctly time the process of boiling eggs.
A hand-cranked mangle appeared on top after 1843 when John E. Turnbull of Saint John, New Brunswick patented a "Clothes Washer With Wringer Rolls". [5] The first geared wringer mangle in the UK is thought to date to about 1850, when one was invented by Robert Tasker of Lancashire . [ 6 ]
Schiffli machines were typically powered by an electric motor and were about 20 times faster than a hand machine. Both hand machines and the early schiffli machines used a pantograph to trace the design. Eventually the schiffli pantograph was replaced by Jacquard punch cards and machine embroidery became fully automated. However, hand machines ...
A school newspaper published using a ditto machine in 1978 A hand-cranked spirit duplicator from the 1960s. The duplicator uses two-ply "spirit masters", also called "master sheets". The first sheet can be typed, drawn, or written upon. The second sheet is coated with a layer of wax that had been impregnated with one of a variety of colorants.
Roll slitting is a shearing operation that cuts a large roll of material into narrower rolls. There are two types of slitting: log slitting and rewind slitting . In log slitting the roll of material is treated as a whole (the 'log') and one or more slices are taken from it without an unrolling/re-reeling process.
A gyroscopic exercise tool is a specialized device used in physical therapy to improve wrist strength and promote the development of palm, wrist, forearm, and finger muscles. It can also be used as a unique demonstration of some aspects of rotational dynamics .