Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 185
L Flutes and clarionets are first perforated with the nose-bit, and then broachedwith taper holes, fcy means of tools of this kind, which are very carefully graduated as to their dimensions. Fig. 570 represents a German rimer, used by wheelwrights for inlaying the boxes of axletrees;the loose blade… … A curious rimer for the use of wine-coopers, by which the holes were made more truly circular, andthe shavings were prevented from dropping into the cask. The stock of the instrument consists of ahollow brass cone, seen in section in Fig. 571; down one side there was a slit for containing a…
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