. Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering. Fig. 3624 represents a tool of nearly similar kind ; the stock is of iron, and it carries a piece of steel,about three or four inches long, and one inch square, which is forged hollow on the faces by means ofthe fuller, to leave less to be ground away on the stone. The rectilinear edges of this tool are usedfor smoothing iron rollers, iron ordnance, and other works turned by hand, and to preserve the edge ofthe tool, thin spills of hard wood are sometimes placed between the cutter and the bar. Under favora-ble arrang
. Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering. Fig. 3624 represents a tool of nearly similar kind ; the stock is of iron, and it carries a piece of steel,about three or four inches long, and one inch square, which is forged hollow on the faces by means ofthe fuller, to leave less to be ground away on the stone. The rectilinear edges of this tool are usedfor smoothing iron rollers, iron ordnance, and other works turned by hand, and to preserve the edge ofthe tool, thin spills of hard wood are sometimes placed between the cutter and the bar. Under favora-ble arrangements these tools also are managed with great facility; indeed, it occasionally happens thatthe weight of the handle just supplies the necessary pressure to advance the tool, so that they will restin proper action without being touched by the hand; a tolerable proof of the trifling muscular effortoccasionally required, when the tools are judiciously moulded and well applied. These hand-tools, and various others of the same kinds, although formerly much used by the mill-wr
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