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 . for the same purjiose. Therammer-head is made of heech, maple, or other haidwood not easily sjdit, and is bored for about twothirds of its length to n^ceive a tenon on the rilled guns or for hollow projectiles, its face iscountersunk. Kammers for large guns are technically temifdrammers and stavrs. For field aitil ety, a spumjc isattached to the other e
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 . for the same purjiose. Therammer-head is made of heech, maple, or other haidwood not easily sjdit, and is bored for about twothirds of its length to n^ceive a tenon on the rilled guns or for hollow projectiles, its face iscountersunk. Kammers for large guns are technically temifdrammers and stavrs. For field aitil ety, a spumjc isattached to the other end of the staH, and the com-bined ini])lement is called a sponge and rammer. The sponge is made of coatse, well-twisted woolen3arn, woven into a warp of .strong liemp or faxthread, after the manner of Brussels They are woven in threads with selvages bc^twcenthem, which, being cut, the sponges are sewed tofit formers of the same diameter as the sponge-heads. Hair sponges, frequently called brusli-wipers, aresometimes employed, and are very useful, lor clcau-in^he grooves of riHed guns. Fig. 4159 is a flexible rammer for turret-guns. It is attachedto the monitor turret by a hinge, so as to be lowered into ser- Fig. Flexible Rainmerfor Turret-Gtins. EAMONEUR. 1879 RANDING-MACHINE.
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