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 836
compress, it is necessary that each band should be drawntightly around the bale and be secured by a tie that does not impair the tensile strength of the band.The following are the essential requisites of aband-tishtener and tie, the absence of any one ot whicnwould be fatal to the result sought to… … Ill 802 STEAM-COMPRESSION OF COTTON. and at others to be several inches within the outer edge of the platens; it must apply the same andconsequently an independent strain to each and every band; it must be so simple in its action as toenable any ordinary laborer to use it; and it must be capable of…
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