The practical metal-worker's assistant : containing the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes : collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others ... (1851)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 271
of holes suitable to bars from f to 2J inchesdiameter; the holes where they meet on the lines b b, are furnishedwith annular steel cutters, and are enlarged outwards each way toadmit the work more easily. The rod r r, to be sheared, is introduced whilst the holes aredirectly opposite or continuous,… … descent of the latter with a pressure of about 100 tons, and forcesthe bar asunder very quietly, and, from the annular form of the cut-ters, without bruising it. When the bar has been cut off, the injec-tion water is allowed to flow out from beneath the cylinder, and thelatter is raised by a loaded…
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