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 _Sheeps-Foot_ is all made of Iron, with an Hammer-head at one end,
to drive the _Ball-Nails_ into the _Ball-Stocks_, and a Claw at the
other end, to draw the _Ball-Nails_ out of the _Ball-Stocks_.
¶. 21. _Of the_ Foot-step, Girts, Stay _of the_ Carriage, Stay _of the_
Frisket, Ball-Stocks, Paper-Bench, Lye-Trough, Lye-Brush, Lye-Kettle,
Tray _to_ wet Paper _in_, Weights to Press Paper, Pelts, _or_ Leather,
Wool _or_ Hair, Ball-Nails _or_ Pumping-Nails.
The _Foot-Step_ is an Inch-Board about a Foot broad, and sixteen
Inches long. This Board is nailed upon a piece of Timber about seven
or eight Inches high, and is Bevil’d away on its upper-side, as is
also the Board on its under-side at its hither end, that the Board may
stand aslope upon the Floor. It is placed fast on the Floor under the
Carriage of the Press. Its Office shall be shewed when we come to treat
of Exercise of the _Press-man_.
_Girts_ are Thongs of Leather, cut out of the Back of an Horse-hide,
or a Bulls hide, sometimes an Hogs-hide. They are about an Inch and
an half, or an Inch and three quarters broad. Two of them are used to
carry the _Carriage_ out and in. These two have each of them one of
their ends nailed to the _Barrel_ on the _Spindle_ of the _Rounce_,
and the other ends nailed to the _Barrel_ behind the _Carriage_ in the
_Planck_ of the _Coffin_, and to the _Barrel_ on the fore-end of the
Frame of the _Coffin_.
The _Stay_ of the _Carriage_ is sometimes a piece of the same _Girt_
fastned to the outside of the further _Cheek_, and to the further
hinder side of the Frame of the _Carriage_. It is fastned at such a
length by the _Press-man_, that the _Carriage_ may ride so far out, as
that the Irons of the _Tympan_ may just rise free and clear off the
fore-side of the _Plattin_.
Another way to stay the _Carriage_ is to let an Iron Pin into the
upper-side of the further Rail of the Frame of the _Ribs_, just in the
place where the further hinder Rail of the _Carriage_ stands projecting
over the _Rib-Rail_, when the Iron of the _Tympan_ may just rise free
from the Fore-side of the _Plattin_; for then that projecting will stop
against the Iron Pin.
The _Stay_ of the _Frisket_ is made by fastning a Batten upon the
middle of the Top-side of the _Cap_, and by fastning a Batten to the
former Batten perpendicularly downwards, just at such a distance, that
the upper-side of the _Frisket_ may stop against it when it is turned
up just a little beyond a Perpendicular. When a _Press_ stands at a
convenient distance from a Wall, that Wall performs the office of the
aforesaid _Stay_.
_Ball-Stocks_ are Turn’d of _Alder_ or _Maple_. Their Shape is
delineated in Plate 9. at g: They are about seven Inches in Diameter,
and have their under-side Turned hollow, to contain the greater
quantity of _Wool_ or _Hair_, to keep the _Ball-Leathers_ plump the
longer.
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