Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 607
the blank, and then from this sudden swell to the point 3 it gradually runs outfrom the centre to increase the bight of the dies, and then by a radial line it runs back to the point ofbeginning, to permit the springs to force open the jaws that the screw-blank may be run back for a repe-tition of… … wheel s that is actuated by an endless screw t on the mandrel. Between the lower arm of the lever mand the sliding-rod n there is interposed a wedge-formed slide n placed at right angles with thesliding-rod n. The end v of this slide is forced by a spring w against the face of a series of…
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