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 327
hole tobe screwed, and the other end being as large as the screw for whichthe nut is intended.21 322 SCREW-CUTTING TOOLS. In many cases a series of two, three, or four taps must be usedinstead of only one single conical tap, and the modifications in theirconstruction are explained by the above… … t sab a f g In the former kind, the thread was frequently finished of a taperfigure, with the screw tool in the lathe; after which either the fouror three plane surfaces were filed upon it, as shown by the sectionat 8 ; the neck from / to g was as small as the bottom of the thread,and the tang from…
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