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 . ing nut on the end of the holder. Fig. 3616 shows several forms of pens. o is a pen with a broad flat nib made for marking packages,for writing placards and show-bills. Ink is retained betweenthe several superposed plates, and the breadth of the nib Fig. 3G16. determines the width of thestroke, unless the pen is turnededgewise. b is a reservoir pen havingfluted
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 . ing nut on the end of the holder. Fig. 3616 shows several forms of pens. o is a pen with a broad flat nib made for marking packages,for writing placards and show-bills. Ink is retained betweenthe several superposed plates, and the breadth of the nib Fig. 3G16. determines the width of thestroke, unless the pen is turnededgewise. b is a reservoir pen havingfluted sides to lead the inkfrom the reservoir to the nib c is the iridium-tipped gold-nib pen, mounted with gutta-percha or hard rubber. (/has wings to hold a globuleof ink. e has a flexible strap aroundthe nibs for the same purpo.*e. /has a peculiarly bent bodyto give elasticity and also forma holder for ink. g- has wire below the nib, tohold ink. h has bent-over wings forthe same purpose. i has a wire likewise- j, a depression in the bodyof the pen. k, a cruciform piece rivetedto the under side of the pen. 2. An ink-leg of acompass. A tlraftsmans instru-ment for drawing lines oieven thickness, ordottinglines. See Drawing-pen. PENCHUTE. 1657 PENCIL. See Gold Pen ; Steel Pex ; Fountain-pen ;Drawing-pen; PiULINg-pen ; Music-pen; Dot-ting-pen, etc. 3. All iiu-losure of liiuiteil size for cattle or Iiogs. Penchute. A trougli conducting the water fromthe nice to the water-wlieel. Pencil. 1. A cylinder or slip of marking mate-rial, usually graphite, hut may be of colored crayonor French chalk. It is usually inclosed in a sheathof cedar, but is sometimes a cylinder or prism of suf-ficient size to be grasped by the fingers or by a porte-crayon. The kind of pencils known :is lead-pencils is madeIrom (jniphifc, otherwise known black-lead. The latter two names are misnomers, as noportion of lead enters into its composition. SeeGUAPUITE. Graphite is a soft variety of carbo
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