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 51
ilar to that employed as the flattening surface. It is fixed to aniron framework on wheels, and is kept at a proper degree of heat by remaining in the furnace, asshown in the drawing. The carriage runs on a railway in front of the annealing-arches, where thesheet is transferred in the usual way.… … cylinder. It is now spread out into a sheet by pressing the same on the flatting-stone, by means ofa small block of elder-wood, fixed on an iron bar m. The temperature at which the flatting is per-formed is such that the operation does not occupy more than a minute. Two improvements have been…
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