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 268
nd the bottompart or core is knocked out of the casting by the edge; lastly, the two sides are pulled asunder bytheir handles, and the casting is removed from the one in which it happens to stick fast; but it requirescautious handling not to break it. The face of the mould is slightly coated with… … Most of the works made in the veiy useful material, pewter, are cast in gun-metal moulds, which re-quire much skill in their construction ; thus, a pewter tankard, with a lunged cover and spout, consistsof six pieces, every one of which requires a different mould. Thus:— 1. The body has a mould in…
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