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 331
is thus traversed within the fixed framing, and supported upon the four guide-pulleys of the vertical slides, which latter are themselves suspended by chains coiled upon two smalldrums placed overhead. On the same spindle with the drums is a large wheel, to which a counterpoiseweight is suspended… … The saw-frame is made rectangular, and from two to three feet longer than the distance between thevertical slides, in order to permit of the horizontal traverse of the saws, which is from IS to 20 inches.To allow of the blades being fixed in the frame with the power of separate adjustment, every…
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