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
not re-quire either man to stoop in his work,and the labor is therefore much easier.The stand and skeleton drum should bemade of as light material as possible, sothat its transfer from one vat to anoth-er may be effected by the two men withease. Scouring Machines.—The processesof hand-scouring done… … 284 LEATHER-WORKING MACHINERY. ing the hide. It is especially applicable to harness, calf, sheep, and goat leather. Another form ofapparatus for scouring, known as the Lockivood machine, is represented in Fig. 2761. This can beset at any angle with the line of shafting, and belted on either end…
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