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 404
gamed for drying; but when the section-beams are stretched out too far, the yarn is more liableto break with the drag of the centre-beam. On one end of the axis of the measuring-rollers N X, there is a screw or worm working into geers>connected with an index which points out the number of yards… … 402 DRESSING MILLSTONES. The measuring-rollers, in general, are common wooden cylinders, about eight inches in, diameterRome are revolving steam-cylinders, which, when properly packed at the journals so as to preventthe steam from escaping, has the best effect of any tiling that has yet been…
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