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 40
sideso as to allow the bar of iron or steel to pass down beside the rivet,and the nib at the end prevents the rod from being displaced by thejar of hammering; these are very convenient. Fig. 19, or thehammer tongs, are used for managing works punched with holes,such as hammers and hatchets: as the… … Fig. 14. Fig. 20, or hoop tongs, are very much used by ship-smiths, forgrasping hoops and rings, which may be then worked either on theedge, when laid flat on the anvil, or on the side when upon the beak-iron : and lastly, Fig. 21 represents the smiths pliers, or light tongs,used for picking up…
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