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 376
steel frameB against which it is placed. The frame A is of brass, but all the rest is of steel. The indentationsxxx are for the fingers to fit in, a requisite precaution to insure accurate hold of the instrument.The use of the trevet is shown in the enlarged sketch, Fig. 2937, in which the… … 362 LOOMS, POWER. against the flat side of the outside wire w\ which forms the guide or fence, and the knife is regu-lated to fall into the groove of the inside wire w. When upward of CO insertions of the wires perinch are made, an idea of the perfection of workmanship required for the purpose may…
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