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 593
ressing cotton by steam, tying, handling, and shipment of bales, are describedunder Steam Compression of Cotton. Drawing Presses are used for cutting and drawing articles of sheet metal. Fig. 3444 representsan improved form of press of this description made by the Ferracute Machine Company of… … PRESSES. 567 heavy base casting, supporting the shafts, gearing, fly-wheel, etc., and the four columns which formthe bearings for the slides. The outer slide, to which is bolted the blank-holder, is driven up by the 3444.
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