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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 714

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es, orenlargements, which are of continual occurrence in machinery; for the ornamental swells or flangesabout the iron work of carriages, and other works. Such tools, like the pair represented in Figs. 1805and 1806, are called swage or collar tools; they save labor in a most important degree, and… … * When cast-steel has been spoiled by overheating, it may be partially recovered by four or five reheatings and quench-uigs in water, each carried to an extent a little less and less than the first excess; and lastly, the steel must have a goodhammering at the ordinary red heat. Some go so far as…

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