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 62
itedtogether in the form of a cross, make a very secure joint withoutthe necessity for upsetting the iron, which would distort the form ofthe tire. The succeeding illustration of the practice of forging will be thatof the formation of a hatchet, Figs. 57 and 58, which like manysimilar tools is made… … D H In making the hatchet, a piece of flat iron is selected of the widthof A E, and twice the length of AD; it is thinned and extendedsideways before it is folded together, to form the projections near Band F, by blows with the pane of the hammer or a round-edged ful-ler, on the lines A B to E F,…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
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