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 . Folding Quilting- Frame. was as large as the quilt, and the modern conven-iences are to secure compactness and facility of ex-posure of that part on which work is ])roceediug, theother portions being covered from the dnst. Fig. Roller Qiiilting-Prame. Fig. 4085 is a frame ^vith jointed leaves, whichfold up against the .standard. In Fig. 4086, two rollers
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 . Folding Quilting- Frame. was as large as the quilt, and the modern conven-iences are to secure compactness and facility of ex-posure of that part on which work is ])roceediug, theother portions being covered from the dnst. Fig. Roller Qiiilting-Prame. Fig. 4085 is a frame ^vith jointed leaves, whichfold up against the .standard. In Fig. 4086, two rollers are journaled in the frontends of the frame and one in the rear. On the outerfront roller is wound the portion of the arti-cle to be quilted, and on the inner roller is wound thelining. The part quilted is wound on the real- roller. Quire, a. A collection of 24 sheets of paper. Wrapping, envelope, flat-cap, printing, and manyother papers are not folded. Newspaper has 25sheets to the qiiirc ; 10 quires to a tukcn : 2 tokensto a ream. When work is calculated by the 1,000sheets, 250 sheets are usually known as a token. b. A collection of one of each of the sheets of abook laid in consecutive order ready for sheets are gathered into a quire or book, whichis folded along the middle. Quirk. 1. A sudden turn ; applied to a form ofmolding in which an acute separates the mold-ing proper from the fillet or soffit: It is much used between m
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