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Pattern making and foundry practice; a plain statement of the methods of wood pattern making, as practiced in modern pattern shops, with complete instructions for sweep work and notes on foundry practice, together with numerous drawings taken from actual patterns ..

Hand, L. H. (Louis Henry), b. 1854 · 1905 · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · 96 pictures

A trade manual on wood pattern making and foundry work by Louis Henry Hand, published in Chicago by F. J. Drake & Co. in 1905 for apprentice and working patternmakers. The line engravings are workshop drawings: sectioned pipe fittings and elbows filled with hatching, curved sweep templates, and board-and-timber assemblies rendered with dense wood-grain lines, offering ready-made hatch textures, cutaway conventions, and letter-keyed diagram parts.

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