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 743
of the frame. A number of small cocks are arranged along each side of the cistern, and a smallbut constant stream from each of the cocks is received beneath in a little box; a sloping channelleads from every box across the bottom of a trough filled with sand, which mingles with the water, … and flows out in separate streams, that are conducted to each of the saw-cuts. The form of thechannels is shown in Fig. 3766, which represents four channels cut across the middle of their length,to show their section, from which it will be seen that the channels are made as a series of Gothic-…
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