Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . roofs, gutters, window-shutters. Fig. 2704 is an elevation of a house made of corru-gated sheet-metal upon an iron frame. Iron-fur^nace. {MetaUnrgij.) A furnace inwhich iron ore or the metal is exposed to heat. Thepurjioses and construction are various. The subjectis treated under the different heads : Bl.^st, Re-riiciN-o, Desulphurizing, Dec.\rbonizixg, Pud-dli
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . roofs, gutters, window-shutters. Fig. 2704 is an elevation of a house made of corru-gated sheet-metal upon an iron frame. Iron-fur^nace. {MetaUnrgij.) A furnace inwhich iron ore or the metal is exposed to heat. Thepurjioses and construction are various. The subjectis treated under the different heads : Bl.^st, Re-riiciN-o, Desulphurizing, Dec.\rbonizixg, Pud-dling, FuKNACES. See list under Iron-ing-board. {Domrjitic.) A laundrj- im-plement on which clothes are ironed ; sometimeshaving a special shape, as for bosoms, pantaloons,etc. Iron-ing-lathe. (Hai-mak-ing.) A machine hav-ing mandrels carrying blocks on which hats aremounted for ironing. The different blocks and po-sitions shown are for holding tlie hat while the side,crown, and outside and inside of the brim respec-tively are ironed. Iron-ing-ma-chine. One for ironing clothes,etc. Specific fomis are make for hat-ironing, forhosiery, and for tailors. The example shows one IRON-LIQUOR. 1204 IRONSTONE CHINA. Fig, Hal-Lathe. in which the clothes are carried on the endless beltunder the heated roller. The table is depressi-ble to allow the passage of heavy articles. The rollercover is the bottom of the tire-ehaniber, and the tireis urged Ijy air from a blower driven by the crankwhich carries the endless apron. Iron-liquor. (Di/einii.) A solution of acetateof iron, used as a mordant by calico-printers. Iron-man. (Co/ton-nmnufacture.) A name ap-plied to the self-acting mule invented in 1S25 byRoberts, of Jlanchester, England. The working of Kg. 2706.
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