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 29
fered off at theends and bent round a piece of wood, a compress of linen in six or eight folds is put upon the joint, andthe whole is tightly bound round with string, and immersed in boiling water for ten tixiutes. Thecontraction of the string, and the expansion of the wood, from being wetted,… … example, in attaching the back of a large comb, to that piece which is formed into the teeth, the twcparts are filfd to correspond, they are surrounded by pieces of linen and inserted between metalmoulds, connected at their extremities by metal screws and nuts; the interval between the halves olthe…
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