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 496
r a little thicker. The bolts are never less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and thebolt diameter may be equal to the flange thickness. The fitting part of the flanges is often a narrow chipping strip, which is faced by hand or in the planing machine. Fig. 3246 shows three arrange-ments…
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