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 756
ought-iron wedges, and the cement well filled in between them with a square blunt-pointedchisel, called a caulking-chisel; the cement is stopped from being driven through by a hoop of thin ironplaced inside the pipe or retort to be thus operated upon, which is afterwards removed. A consider-able… … 740 GAS. ft species of pyrites, nil the parts of which ailhere strongly together. Mr. Watt found that the cementis improved by adding some fine sand from the grindstone trough. A very economical joint for the retort mouth-piece is made of fivo parts of fine clay, and one part ofthe mixture just…
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