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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 277

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hed to the end of a jointed arm, moved up and downby a crank, so as to penetrate almost through the material, and theuncut portion is so very thin that it splits through at each stroke,and leaves the two combs detached. The little instrument, called a pen-making machine, is anotheringenious example… … a right line; although in reality it only opens to a right angle. Thelower half has a small steel cutter b, pointed to the angle of the nibsof the pen, and fluted to the curye of the quill as at a; the uppercutter d, is made as an inverted angle with nearly vertical edges, asseen at «, which…

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