Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : $b The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing — John Shaqi
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 yet I think it very convenient to have a _Summer_ also, the more
firmly and surer to keep the _Cheeks_ together; This _Summer_ is only
a Rail _Tennanted_, and let into Mortesses made in the inside of the
_Cheeks_, and Screwed to them as the Rails described, _Numb._ 15. §. 4.
are Screwed into the Stiles of the _Case-Frame_; Its depth four Inches
and an half, and its breadth eight Inches, _viz._ the breadth of the
_Cheeks_.
¶. 5. _Of the_ Head _marked_ e _in_ Plate 5.
The length of the _Head_ besides the _Tennant_ at either end, is one
Foot nine Inches and one quarter of an Inch; The breadth eight Inches
and an half, and its depth eight Inches. The Top, Bottom and Hind-sides
are tryed Square, but the fore-side projects half an Inch over the Range
of the fore-sides of the _Cheeks_; in which Projecture is cut a Table
with a hollow Molding about it, two Inches distant from all the sides
of the fore-side of the _Head_: Its _Tennants_ are three Inches Broad,
and are cut down at either end, from the top to the bottom of the
_Head_, and made fit to the Mortesses in the _Cheeks_, that they may
slide tight, and yet play in them.
In the under-side of the _Head_ is cut a square Hole, (as at _a_,)
about four Inches square, and three Inches and an half deep, into which
the _Brass-Nut_ is to be fitted: And to keep this _Nut_ in its place
(lest the weight of it should make it fall out) is made on either side
the square hole, at about half an Inch distance from it, (as at _b b_)
a square Hole quite through the Top and Bottom of the _Head_ about
three quarters of an Inch wide; and into this square Hole is fitted a
square piece of Iron to reach quite through the _Head_, having at its
under-end a Hook turned square to claspe upon the under-side of the
_Nut_; and on its upper end a Male-Screw reaching about an Inch above
the upper-side of the _Head_, which by the help of a Female-screw made
in an Iron _Nut_, with Ears to it to turn it about draws the _Clasp_ at
the bottom of the Iron _Shank_ close against the _Nut_, and so keeps
it from falling out.
In the middle of the wide square Hole that the _Nut_ is let into,
is bored a round Hole through the top of the _Head_, of about three
quarters of an Inch wide, for the _Press-man_ to pour _Oyl_ in at so
oft as the _Nut_ and _Spindle_ shall want _Oyling_.
At three Inches from either end of the _Head_ (as at _c c_) is bored a
Hole quite through the top and bottom of the _Head_, which holes have
their under ends squar’d about two Inches upwards, and these squares
are made so wide as to receive a square Bar of Iron three quarters of
an Inch square; But the other part of these Holes remain round: Into
these Holes two Irons are fitted called the _Screws_.
The Shanks of these _Screws_ are made so long as to reach through the
_Head_ and through the _Cap_: At the upper end of these Shanks is made
Male-screws, and to these Male-screws, Iron Female-screws are fitted
with two Ears to twist them the easier about.
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