Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : $b The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printingMoxon, Joseph
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Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : $b The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing
Moxon, Joseph
Printing -- Early works to 1800
But because the smallness of this altogether-Draft may obscure the
plain appearance of many of these Parts; Therefore I shall give you
a more particular description, and large delineation of every Member
in the _Press_: And first of the Wooden-work: Where, _Note_, that all
the Fram’d Wooden-work of a _Press_ is made of Good, Fine, Clean,
Well-season’d _Oak_.
¶. 1. _Of the_ Feet.
The _Feet_ (marked _a a_ in Plate 5.) are two Foot nine Inches and
an half long, five Inches deep; and six Inches broad, and have their
outsides Tryed to a true square, as was taught, _Numb._ 5. §. 15. It
hath (for ornament sake) its two ends bevil’d away in a Molding, from
its upper-side to its lower, about four Inches within the ends; about
four Inches and three quarters within each end of each Foot is made in
the middle of the Breadth of the upper-side of the Foot a Mortess two
Inches wide, to receive the _Tennants_ of the lower end of the _Cheek_,
and the _Tennant_ of the lower end of the _Hind-Post_: The Mortess for
the _Cheek_ is eight Inches long, _viz._ the Breadth of the _Cheek_:
And the Mortess for the Hind-Post is four Inches long, _viz._ the
square of the _Hind-Post_.
¶. 2. _Of the_ Cheeks.
The _Cheeks_ (marked _b b_ in Plate 5.) are five Foot and ten Inches
long (besides the _Tennants_ of the top and bottom) eight Inches
broad, and four Inches and an half thick. All its Sides are tryed
square to one another. It hath a _Tennant_ at either end, its lower
_Tennant_ marked _a_ to enter the Fore-end of the Foot, runs through
the middle of the Breadth of the _Cheek_, which therefore is made to
fit the Mortess in the _Foot_, and is about four Inches long, and
therefore reaches within an Inch of the bottom of the _Foot_; But the
_Tennant_ at the upper end of the _Cheek_ marked _a_, is cut athwart
the breadth of the _Cheek_, and therefore can have but four Inches and
an half of Breadth, and its thickness is two Inches, Its length is four
Inches; so that it reaches into the Mortess in the _Cap_, within half
an Inch of the Top.
In the lower end-_Tennant_ is two holes bored, within an Inch and an
half of either side, and within an Inch and an half of the Sholder,
with a three quarter Inch _Augure_, to be pin’d into the _Feet_ with an
Iron Pin.
In the middle of the upper _Tennant_, and within an Inch and an half
of the Sholder, is bored another hole, to Pin the _Tennant_ into the
_Cap_, also with an Iron Pin.
Between _b c_ two Foot and half an Inch, and three Foot seven Inches
of the Bottom-Sholder of the _Tennant_, _viz._ from the top of the
_Winter_ to the under Sholder the _Till_ rests upon, is cut flat away
into the thickness of the _Cheek_, three Inches in the Inside of the
_Cheek_; so that in that place the _Cheek_ remains but an Inch and an
half thick: And the _Cheeks_ are thus widened in this place, as well
because the Duftail _Tennants_ of the _Winter_ may go in between them,
as also that the _Carriage_ and _Coffin_ may be made the wider.
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