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 937
ails, so that the flexible lines, as g h, on B, are connected with, andstrengthened by, the strong lines, as erf, on A, and so on: the whole collectively form a very rigidframe, the more especially when the bottom piece is fixed to the sides by glue or screws, as it entirelyremoves from them the… … When the grain of the four sides A B C D runs in the same direction, or parallel with the edges ofthe box or drawer, as shown by the shade lines on A and B, and the pieces are equally wet or dry,hey will contract or expand equally, and without any mischief or derangement happening to the work;to…
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