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 296
LEATHER-WORKING MACHINERY. 283 373S. … not fastened to the floor, and may be placed between any two pits as required. The hides being at-tached together are led up from one pit over the reel and into the adjacent pit, and by turning thereel they are lifted and transferred.The facility with which packs may be v\ \\thus transferred from…
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