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 250
RKING. 237 with a reversed motion of the screw. The bar A is eounterweighted so as to press either toward oraway from the centre line of the lathe. By a suitable device the slide-rest may be adjusted so as tobe incapable of carrying the tool beyond a certain distance from the centre of the work, so… … screwed externally, or other operations performed upon it, at one chucking ; the size of the boring,tapping, and screwing being standard, because of the standard sizes of the tools used, and of theadjustment of the slide-rest or of thj tail-stock, as the cast may be. The addition of a hand-rest…
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