swaging machine

A swaging machine works by using two or four split dies which separate and close up to 2000 times a minute.

A swaging machine is used to terminate the wire.

Boys worked at the swaging furnaces, removing the heated horseshoes with tongs and placing them on the revolving dies of the swaging machine.

There are two basic types of rotary swaging machine, the standard (also known as a tagging machine), and the butt swaging machine.

A butt swaging machine works by having sets of wedges that close the dies onto the workpiece by inserting them between the annular rollers and the dies, normally by the use of a foot pedal.

A variation of the rotary swager is the creeping spindle swaging machine where both the spindle and cage revolve in opposite directions, this prevents the production of fins between the dies where the material being swaged grows up the gap between the dies.