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
The two _Side-Rails_ on either side the _Press_ are _Tennanted_ at each
end, and let into Mortesses made in the _Cheeks_ and _Hind-Posts_,
so as they may stand Range with the outer-sides of the _Cheeks_ and
_Hind-Posts_; But the _Tennants_ that enter the Mortesses in the
_Cheeks_ are not pin’d in with Wooden Pins, and Glewed, because they
may be taken assunder if need be; But are Pin’d in with Iron Pins, made
a little tapering towards the entring end, so as they may be driven
back when occasion serves to alter the _Press_: And the _Tennants_
that enter the Mortesses in the _Hind-Posts_ are fastned in by a
Female-screw, let in near the end of the _Rail_, which receives a
Male-screw thrust through the _Hind-Posts_, even as I shew’d in §. 4.
the _Fore_ and _Back-Rails_ of the _Case-Frames_ was.
¶. 8. _Of the_ Ribs _marked_ b _in_ Plate 6.
The _Ribs_ lye within a Frame of four Foot five Inches long, one Foot
eleven Inches broad; its two _End-Rails_ one Inch and an half thick,
its _Side-Rails_ two Inches and an half thick; and the breadth of the
_Side_ and _End-Rails_ two Inches and an half. But the _Side-Rails_ are
cut away in the inside an Inch and an half towards the outer-sides of
the _Rails_, and an Inch deep towards the Bottom sides of the _Rails_,
so that a square _Cheek_ on either _Side-Rail_ remains. This cutting
down of the _Outer-Rails_ of the _Frame_ is made, because the Planck of
the _Carriage_ being but one Foot eight Inches and an half broad, may
easily slide, and yet be gaged between these _Cheeks_ of the _Rail_,
that the _Cramp-Irons_ Nailed under the _Carriage Planck_ joggle not on
either side off the _Ribs_, as shall more fully be shewn in the next §.
Between the two _Side-Rails_ are framed into the two _End-Rails_ the
two _Wooden-Ribs_ two Inches and an half broad, and an Inch and an half
thick; they are placed each at an equal distance from each _Side-Rail_,
and also at the same distance between themselves. Upon these two _Ribs_
are fast Nailed down the _Iron-Ribs_, of which more shall be said when
I come to speak of the Iron-work.
¶. 9. _Of the_ Carriage, Coffin _and its_ Planck, _marked_ a _in_ Plate
7.
The _Planck_ of the _Carriage_ is an Elm-Planck an Inch and an half
thick, four Foot long, and one Foot eight Inches and three quarters
broad; upon this _Planck_ at its fore-end is firmly Nailed down a
square Frame two Foot four Inches long, one Foot ten Inches broad, and
the thickness of its Sides two Inches and an half square; This Frame is
called the _Coffin_, and in it the _Stone_ is _Bedded_.
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