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
So much of these Iron-Shanks as are to lye in the square Hole of the
_Head_ aforesaid, are also squared to fit those square Holes, that when
they are fitted and put into the Holes in the _Head_; they may not
twist about.
To the lower ends of these Iron-Shanks are made two Square, Flat Heads,
which are let into and buried in the under-side of the _Head_; And upon
the Sholders of those two Flat Heads, rests the weight of the _Head_
of the _Press_; And by the _Screws_ at the upper end of the Shanks are
hung upon the upper-side of the _Cap_, and Screwed up or let down as
occasion requires.
[Illustration: _Plate 6._]
¶. 6. _Of the_ Till, _marked_ f _in_ Plate 5.
The _Till_ is a Board about one Inch thick, and is as the _Head_
and _Winter_, one Foot nine Inches and a quarter long, besides the
_Tennants_ at either end; Its Breadth is the Breadth of the _Cheeks_,
_viz._ eight Inches; It hath two _Tennants_ at either end as at _a a
a a_, each of them about an Inch and an half long, and an Inch and
an half broad, and are made at an Inch distance from the fore and
Back-side, so that a space of two Inches is contained in the middle of
the ends between the two _Tennants_; these _Tennants_ are to be laid
in the Mortesses in the _Cheeks_ delineated at _f f_ in Plate 5. and
described in this §. 10. ¶. 2.
In its middle it hath a round Hole about two Inches and an half wide,
as at _b_, for the Shank of the _Spindle_ to pass through.
At seven Inches and a quarter from either end, and in the middle
between the fore and Back-side, is made two square Holes through the
_Till_, as at _c c_, for the Iron _Hose_ to pass through.
¶. 7. _Of the_ Hind-Posts _marked_ a a _in_ Plate 6.
At one Foot distance from the Hind-sides of the _Cheeks_ are placed
upright two _Hind-Posts_, they are three Foot and four Inches long
besides the _Tennants_, which _Tennants_ are to be placed in the
Mortesses in the hinder-ends of the _Feet_; Their thickness is four
Inches on every side, and every side is tryed square; But within eight
Inches of the top is turned a round Ball with a Button on it, and a
Neck under it, and under that Neck a straight Plinth or Base: This
turn’d work on the top is only for Ornament sake.
There are six _Rails_ fitted into these _Hind-Posts_, two behind marked
_a b_, one of them standing with its upper-side at two Inches below
the turned Work, the other having its upper-side lying level with the
upper-side of the _Winter_.
These two _Rails_ are each of them _Tennanted_ at either end, and are
made so long, that the outsides of the _Hind-Posts_ may stand Range or
even with the outer-sides of the _Cheeks_; These _Tennants_ at either
end are let into Mortesses made in the insides of the _Hind-Posts_,
and Pin’d up with half Inch wooden Pins, Glewed in, as was shewn Vol.
1. _Numb._ 5. §. 17. Because the two _Hind-Posts_ need not be separated
for any alteration of the _Press_.
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