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 334
volving plates; in this case the axis isplaced entirely beneath the surface of the plate, somewhat as in Fig. 2714, and the slab is traversedby two men over the face of the plate to grind it equally, but the machiue next described is betteradapted for large slabs of marble requiring tolerable… … .-lorizontally upon a moving bed, and the grinding is effected by sand and water, by means of I largeflat plate of iron resting upon the surface of the slab. The two surfaces are traversed over each otherwith a compound motion, partly eccentric and partly rectilinear, so as continually to change…
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