folding-machine

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A mechanism that automatically folds printed sheets. Such machines have sometimes attachments for cutting, insetting, covering, and pasting.
2. n. A pressing and shaping machine for forming hollow ware from sheet-metal.
3. n. A machine, or a hand-tool, for turning over and folding under the edges of vamps or other parts of a shoe; a vamp-folding machine.