Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 21
, which is Tshaped, and works on a pivot in a triangularframe, composed of the two sides 6 and c, forgedin one piece, and a stay d, which serves as a stock; // are loops, or eyes, for the reception ofthe chains that unite the ring g, to which the cable is to be fastened. For general purposes, this… … ANCHOR. 17 formed in two parts, instead of one of equal area, they are more easily forged soundly, and consequentlyless liable to breakage. The peculiarity of the anchor proposed by W. Rogers, consists in its having a hollow shank, formed outof six bars of iron, of such a thickness as to insure the…
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