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 744
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-… … shaped tunnels, supported only on one side, and open on the other for the admission of the sand;the water flows through these tunnels, and, continually washing against the convex side of thechannel, undermines the sand, which falls into the water and is carried down. There is a sand-trough and set…
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