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 19
, which is Tshaped, and works on a pivot in a triangularframe, composed of the two sides b and c, forgedm one piece, and a stay d, which serves as a stock; f f are loops, or eyes, for the reception ofthe chains that unite the ring g, to which the cable is to be fastened. For general purposes, this… … ANCHOR. formed in two parts, instead of one of equal area, they are more easily forged soundly, and consequentlyless liable to breakage. The peculiarity of the anchor proposed by W. Rogers, consists in its having a hollow shank, formed outof sis bars of iron, of such a thickness as to insure the…
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