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 596
position, the pressure on the bale increases and the motion of theplaten diminishes. The Bookbinders Embossing or StampingPress, Fig. 3454, is used to make impressionsof brass or electro ornaments or letters on thecovers of books. The ornaments or letters are pasted on thick paper to an iron plate,… … >70 PRESSES, PRINTING. cam-wheel straightens the toggle-joint, raising the platen to the head, thus obtaining the impression.The impression is regulated by a hand-wheel operating a wedge at the bottom of the press. Thispress is usually run at the speed of 25 revolutions to the minute. Th<…
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