Removing bar from fork prong ends
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Title:Removing bar from fork prong ends
Location:Sheffield
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Photographer:Cutlery Research Council
Copyright::Cutlery Research Council
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Forks too, are made in carefully designed cycle of operations embodying generations of experience. After being pressed out from the flat they have a metal bar across ends of prongs removed by this machine. Later prongs are sharpened and cleaned on a very thin wheel.

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