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 37
t is now ready for cutting, for which purpose it must be fixed in the chuck shown inFig. 57, which is made as follows: _ A is a chuck of box, or other hard wood, having a recess turned in it at a i, into which is fitted apiece of cork, as a soft substance for the egg to rest against B is a small… … * Monsieur H. Pape, of Paris, pianoforte manufacturer, has taken out patents for this method of cutting tvory spirallyinto sheets. A specimen, 17 inches by 3S inches, and about one-thirtieth of an inch thick, glued upon a board, may beBeen at the Polytechnic Exhibition in KegeM-street, and M. Pape…
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