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 740
the cloth is pressed, by the beaters A A, alternately, during the opera-tion of washing. By this means the cloth is continually, but slowly, being turned round by the actionof the beaters upon it. Water is meantime supplied from the cistern a, which extends across the backof the framing, through a… … The feet A A, as above described, are worked by the double wipers C CCC on the wiper shaft I;t^ese wipen being set pair and pair at right angles to each other, work the feet alternately; so thatwhen one foot is being caught by its wiper, the other is at that moment being released. The feet thusrise…
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