Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 455
n upright wedges in press-boxes by the impulsionof vertical rams driven also by a cam mechanism. In the best mills upon the old construction, the cakesobtained by this first wedge-pressure were thrown upon the bed of an edge-mill, ground anew, and sub-jected to a second pressure, aided by heat now…
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