Draw frames and fly frames : being a practical treatise on the above machines (1898)
Thornley, T. (Thomas) · Manchester : A. Heywood · leaf 156
is not fixed to the frameworkat all, but is sustained, as it were, by the two hooks D E.The hooking of the spring to it also helps to keep it in place.It can either act as a lever of the first order, working onthe central stud, or, if a sufficient amount of force could beapplied equally to the two… … Fig. 37. the top cradle be raised. The hook D will pull at the leftend of the beam or lever C, and cause it to turn slightlyupon the central pin. The right end G of the lever C willtend to go downwards. This downward movement of G,however, can only take place to a very limited degree, asit will be…
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