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 81
re, liquids, or otherwise; and in many cases the weight of the rollers themselves might be found sufficient to give the re-quired pressure without the intervention of additional pressure. The next object to which the patentee directs attention, is to the improved mode of construct-ing… … the pressure-roller is mounted, being brought to act uponthe same to any degree of force, by the application of ahand-wheel and screw-spindle, supported in bearings, suit-ably arranged. To the end of the screw-spindle two fixedstuds are attached, between which the lower end of theflexible lever or…
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