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 642
to slender rods or wires, serving as the handles, and extending beyond the ends of the slides: orthe handle is at right angles to the file, and formed -.. the end, as a staple, to clip the ends of the shortfile, as in reaching the bottom of a cavity. Files intended to reach to the bottom of shallow… … To stiffen slender files, they are occasional!}- made with tin or brass backs, as in Figs. 1640 and1641; such are called dovetail files; and thin equalling files are sometimes grasped in a brass frame,Fig. 1642, exactly like that used for a metal frame-saw. Notwithstanding the great diversity in…
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