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 229
cut from each end of each coil and subjected to a test peculiar to the manufacturer. If this provesit faulty in any particular, the coil is laid aside to be used for some inferior purpose. If, however, itproves all right, the whole coil is unwound and straightened by passing it between rollers. It… … ^i—rr: KNITTING MACHINERY. 219 depends in a measure on the gauge). The eye is now punched, not sawed, as some suppose. Theformer plan is preferred, as it leaves the needle much stronger by reason of its condensing the stockinstead of cutting it away. They are now reduced to a gauge at the point,…
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