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Patent drawing showing an X-shaped folding wooden reel made of pivoted slats with pins at the ends, alongside a separate wire clamp with coiled springs and jaws for attaching the reel to a table edge, plus an enlarged cross-section of the central screw-pin assembly.

REEL OR SWIFT.Herman Epple · September 3, 1889

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