Bead Roller

A Tinsmiths Bead Roller?

Following the discussion about whether it is a swedge or swage comes the name of roller machine.  Most often the names were what the machine did.  This is seen in the patent description by A W Whitney in 1847.

Most often we hear these machines called rolling machines, which we always thought was a modern description, but there is documentation of the use of rolling machines as shown in the Stow patent description.

Now which term should we use?

 


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