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 902
t reaches the annealing-oven,where it is placed on a small circular bench, and is detached from the rod by means of a pair of strongshears, leaving a mark called the bullion, or bulls-eye. Another workman, who has charge of theannealing, now raises the table of glass upon a large fork-like… … JThe glass, after remaining in the kiln for a considerable timo, during which the cooling has beensarefully regulated, is withdrawn, so as to enable a workman to go inside and hand out each table onthe outside to an assistant. Plate-glass.—The operation of blowing and flatting glass for mirrors is…
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