Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 735
very superior kind,strong, correct, and simple, and there can be no question of its qualities. A, Fig. 3419, is the frame; BB are two wheels on which is fixed the cutting-knife C, across the endof the box D; E is the lid of the box, under which is pressed down the tobacco to be cut, by four screwsF… … the sides of the box to allow these bars to descend with the cover on the top of the tobacco as it isscrewed down. H is a cog-wheel on the screw L. The screw passes through it, and as there is athread in the interior of the wheel, the screw will be moved forward or backward by the motion of…
Mechanical engineering
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