Devices for smoothing a fabric merely by stretching the same.
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69, Leather Manufactures,
46, for the stretching of leather by racking or rubbing; i.e., by submitting a leather sheet to the force of blows by oscillating or reciprocating rod ends while held in arched configuration (e.g., by the oscillations or reciprocations of a group of spaced rods whose ends define a convex array).