Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 358
driving pulley continues to revolve always in the same direction.The movements of the table and of the cylinders are performed in exactharmony with each other, for these pieces are so connected by trains ofwheels and rackwork that the sheets of paper may always receive the im-pression in the proper… … Tapes of Cowpers Machine. and as this cannot be secured unless the paper travels over both cylindersat precisely the same rate, these are finished with great care by turningtheir surfaces in a lathe to exactly the same diameter. The action of themachine will not be fully understood without a glance…
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