Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 223
l. The brasses for fast-running journals should come brass and brass; that is, their faces shouldtouch and lock together by the pressure due to the key or the bolts, as the case may be ; so thatwhen, in the fitting, the adjustment is so made as to permit of the key being driven tightly home,there… … its place, and there is but little wear upon it, the joint of the brasses may be left open to permit ofadjustment without filing off the faces; but if it is at all convenient to take out the top brass even,the brasses should be made to lock each other by the interposition between their faces of two…
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