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
Upon the fore-side of the _Cheek_ is (for Ornament sake) laid a Molding
through the whole length of the _Cheek_ (a square at the Top and Bottom
an Inch deep excepted) it is laid on the outer side, and therefore can
be but an Inch broad; Because the Cuttings-in on the inside leaves
the substance of Stuff but an Inch and an half thick, and should
the Moldings be made broader, it would be interrupted in the several
Cuttings in, or else a square of a quarter of an Inch on either side
the Molding could not be allowed, which would be ungraceful.
¶. 3. _Of the_ Cap _marked_ c _in Plate_ 5.
The _Cap_ is three Foot and one Inch long, four Inches and an half
deep, and nine Inches and an half broad; But its fore-side is cut away
underneath to eight Inches, _Viz._ the breadth of the _Cheeks_. Three
quarters of an Inch above the bottom of the _Cap_, is a small _Facia_,
which stands even with the thickness of the _Cheeks_; Half an Inch
above that a Bead-Molding, projecting half an Inch over the _Facia_.
Two Inches above that a broad _Facia_, also even with the thickness of
the _Cheeks_; and an Inch and a quarter above that is the upper Molding
made projecting an Inch and an half over the two _Facia_’s aforesaid,
and the thickness of the _Cheeks_.
Each end of the _Cap_ projects three Inches quarter and half quarter
over the _Cheeks_, partly for Ornament, but more especially that
substance may be left on either end beyond the Mortesses in the
Cap; and these two ends have the same Molding laid on them that the
fore-side of the _Cap_ hath.
Within two Inches and half quarter of either end, on the under-side the
_Cap_ is made a square Mortess two Inches wide, and four Inches and an
half long, _viz._ the thickness of the _Cheek_ inwards, as at _a a_,
to receive the Top _Tennants_ of the _Cheeks_; which Top _Tennants_
are with an Iron Pin (made tapering of about three quarters of an Inch
thick) pin’d into the Mortess of the _Cap_, to keep the _Cheeks_ steddy
in their position.
¶. 4. _Of the_ Winter _marked_ d _in_ Plate 5.
The Length of the _Winter_ besides the _Tennants_, is one Foot nine
Inches and one quarter of an Inch; The Breadth of the _Winter_
eight Inches, _viz._ the Breadth of the _Cheek_, and its depth nine
Inches; all its sides are tryed square; But its two ends hath each a
Duftail-_Tennant_ made through the whole depth of the _Winter_, to
fit and fall into the Duftail Mortesses made in the _Cheeks_: These
Duftail-_Tennants_ are intended to do the Office of a _Summer_, Because
the spreading of the ends of these two _Tennants_ into the spreading
of the Mortesses in the _Cheeks_, keeps the two _Cheeks_ in a due
distance, and hinders them from flying assunder.
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