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 285
ng-tool shown in Fig. 2724 is specially adapted to finishing sweeps or curves, and may beused on either wrought or cast iron, or brass; the only difference in shape required to fit it for suchvarious uses is to give it less top rake for cast than for wrought iron, and less for brass than for… … of the arrow C, which is away from its cut, so that it will give way to the metal rather thanspring into it, which causes it to recede from the harder and spring into the softer parts of themetal, rendering its use unadvisable except for finishing curves, which it will do more smoothly andcleanly…
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