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 649
of the vice, between clamps of sheet brass, to prevent the teeth either of the viceor tile from being injured, and the handle is then driven on. In the double-ended rifflors, or bent, tiles, Pig, 1080, and in some other files, there is a plain part inthe middle, fulfilling the ofliee of a handlo;… … In general, the length of the file exceeds that of the object filed, but in filing large surfaces it becomesoccasionally necessary to attach cranked handles to the large files or rubbers, as in Fig. 1631, in orderto raise the hand above the plane of the work. Sometimes the end of the file is simply…
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