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 410
ed for drying; but when the section-beams are stretched out too far, the yarn is more liableto break with the drag of the centre-beam. On one end of the axis of the measuring-rollers N N, there is a screw or worm working into geers,connected with an index which points out the number of yards of… … 402 DRESSING MILLSTONES. The measuring-rollers, in general, are common wooden cylinders, about eight inches in diameter;BOme are revolving steam-cylinders, which, when properly packed at the journals so as to preventtlu> steam from escaping, has the best effect of any thing that has yet been…
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