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 . Enock-down. A j)iece of furniture or otherstructure adapted to be disconnected at the joints soas to pack compactly. The shook nuiy be said to be a knock-down barrel. The e.\:ample shows the parts of chairs down,. Knock-down Chairs. bundled, and tied. The dillerent figures show re-spectively a dozen front legs ami rounds, as manybacks, seats, side ro
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 . Enock-down. A j)iece of furniture or otherstructure adapted to be disconnected at the joints soas to pack compactly. The shook nuiy be said to be a knock-down barrel. The e.\:ample shows the parts of chairs down,. Knock-down Chairs. bundled, and tied. The dillerent figures show re-spectively a dozen front legs ami rounds, as manybacks, seats, side rounds ; also a chair complete andbox to hold a dozen knocked down. t Knocker. 1. An attachment to an door . of a house, to give notice to 1 those within that some one r>g- 2776. I stands without. I 2. An attachment in aflour-bolt to jar the frame I and shake the flour fromthe meshes of the bolting-cloth. In the example, the ; knockers are pivoted weiglit- I ed arms ; as the bolt iv-volves, the weights tilt the arms and strike the bolt-frame. j Knocker-off. (A»i7- ling.) A wheel with luojections to raise the loopover the top of the needle and discharge it there-from. A similar wheel, called a sinker, depressesthe varn between the needles. See Bnt. Enocking. (Bookbindinij.) Setting even atthe edges, by taking a bunch or pile of sheets orleaves and striking an eilge on the bench. I Knocking-down Iron. (Eookhindincj.) Aniron for
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