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 292
log in the direction of itsbreadth, in setting it for another cut—is effected by the screws S S, the bearings of which are fixedon the sole G, and their screwed parts working in nuts fixed on the piece E. On these screws, worm-wheels are fixed, driven by worms on a horizontal shaft, winch again is… … Action of the Machine.—The log being fixed to the frame D E, and the end ot it adjusted in contactwith the edge of the saw, by means of the longitudinal and transverse sliding-surfaces already described,the clutch V is geered with the pulleys M, the driving-bands being shifted to the proper speeds.…
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