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 . Inclined Dish Cryrating-Pnn Quarlz-MiU. or straps ; the object of which is to support andstrengthen the basin. AVithin the basin is placed theball which is to pulverize the ore. Fig. 4078. Quay. A wharf projecting into a stream, harbor,or basin, to which vessels are moored for the puiposeof receiving and delivering freight. In Europe, quays are gen
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 . Inclined Dish Cryrating-Pnn Quarlz-MiU. or straps ; the object of which is to support andstrengthen the basin. AVithin the basin is placed theball which is to pulverize the ore. Fig. 4078. Quay. A wharf projecting into a stream, harbor,or basin, to which vessels are moored for the puiposeof receiving and delivering freight. In Europe, quays are generally formed by retain-ing walls of stone, supported by counterforts andbacking ; in this country, wood is generally em- QUAY. 1847 QUICK-RETURN GEARING. ployed. The quays of Montreal are the best on thecontinent. See Sea-wall, where the mode of con-struction of the New York harbor-iiuays is repre-sented. See also Floatixg-derkick. Fig. 4079 is a section and plan of a timber quay as constructedin England g Fig. 40-9. ^ f Ml! The Dutch are said to run the sides of the wallsparallel, that is, make them of equal thickness, sothat the batter of the outside causes an overhang ofthe inside. Tins seems indefensible. Queen-post. Queeu-posts are mortised or at-ta
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