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 31
fered off at theends and bent round a piece of wood, a compress of linen in six or eight folds is put upon the joint, andthe whole is tightly bound round with string, and immersed in boiling water for ten minutes. Thecontraction of the string, and the expansion of the wood, from being wetted,… … example, in attaching the back of a large comb, to that piece which is formed into the teeth, the twoparts are filed to correspond, they are surrounded by pieces of linen and inserted between metalmoulds, connected at their extremities by metal screws and nuts; the interval between the halves ofthe…
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