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
Even with the lower Sholder of this flat cutting-in, is made a Duftail
Mortess as at _d_, to reach eight Inches and an half, _viz._ the depth
of the _Winter_ below the said Sholder. This Mortess is three Inches
wide on the inside the _Cheek_, and three Inches deep; But towards the
inside the _Cheek_, the Mortess widens in a straight line from the said
three Inches to five Inches, and so becomes a Duftail Mortess. Into
this Duftail Mortess is fitted a Duftail _Tennant_, made at each end of
the _Winter_.
Two Inches above the aforesaid Cutting-in, is another cutting-in of
the same depth, from the Inside the _Cheek_ as at _e_. This cutting-in
is but one Inch broad at the farther side the _Cheek_, and an Inch
and a quarter on the hither-side the _Cheek_. The under-side of this
Cutting-in, is straight through the _Cheek_, _viz._ Square to the sides
of the _Cheek_: But the upper-side of this Cutting-in, is not square
through the _Cheeks_, But (as aforesaid) is one quarter of an Inch
higher on the fore-side the _Cheek_ than it is on the further side; So
that a Wedge of an Inch at one end, and an Inch and a quarter at the
other end may fill this Cutting-in.
At an Inch within either side the _Cheek_, and an Inch below this
Cutting-in, as at _f f_, is made a small Mortess an Inch and an half
wide, to which two _Tennants_ must be fitted at the ends of the
_Till_, so that the _Tennants_ of the _Till_ being slid in through
the Cutting-in aforesaid, may fall into these Mortesses, and a Wedge
being made fit to the Cutting-in, may press upon the _Tennants_ of the
_Till_, and force it down to keep it steddy in its place.
Here we see remains a square Sholder or substance of Wood between
two Cuttings-in; But the under corner of this square Sholder is for
Ornament sake Bevil’d away and wrought into an _Ogee_.
At two Inches above the last Cutting-in, is another Cutting-in, but
this Cutting-in goes not quite through the breadth of the _Cheek_, but
stops at an Inch and an half within the further side the _Cheek_; So
that above the _Till_ and its _Wedge_ is another Sholder or substance
of Wood, whose upper Corner is also Bevil’d away, and wrought to a
Molding as the former.
The last Cutting-in is marked _g_, and is eight Inches and a quarter
above the Sholder of the _Till_, that it may easily contain the depth
of the _Head_; The substance remaining is marked _h_. This Cutting-in
is made as deep into the thickness of the _Cheek_ as the former
Cuttings-in are, _viz._ three Inches; and the reason the _Cheek_ is
cut in here, is, that the _Cheeks_ may be wide enough in this place to
receive the _Head_, and its _Tennants_, without un-doing the _Cap_ and
_Winter_.
Just above this Cutting-in is made a square Mortess in the middle of
the _Cheek_, as at _i_, it is eight Inches long, and two Inches and an
half wide, for the _Tennant_ of the _Head_ to play in.
[Illustration: _Plate 5._]
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