Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts . lves, and are easily straightened and made even. For this latter purpose, a rod of iron, fur-nished at the end with a wooden polisher,Fig. 2167, is employed, and this is dippedinto water each time it is used. When allthe curvatures and lumps have been reduced,the sheet is pushed backward into the an-nealing-oven, where it cools down and isplaced in an upright leaning position. Be-tween every 80 or 40 sheets an iron rod s sis inserted, and the operation is continueduntil the whole furna
Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts . lves, and are easily straightened and made even. For this latter purpose, a rod of iron, fur-nished at the end with a wooden polisher,Fig. 2167, is employed, and this is dippedinto water each time it is used. When allthe curvatures and lumps have been reduced,the sheet is pushed backward into the an-nealing-oven, where it cools down and isplaced in an upright leaning position. Be-tween every 80 or 40 sheets an iron rod s sis inserted, and the operation is continueduntil the whole furnace is 2168 is an elevation of a flatting-furnace in section, with three annealing-arches of the ordi-nary description. Fig. 2169 is a ground plan of the same. In Fig. 2170 are elevations of two endviews of the flatting-furnace, a b is the spreading-furnace, divided into two compartments by thepartition c ; dd are two sets of fire-bars, on which wood must be burnt; e is the spreading or flat-ting stone oi the furnace, which must be perfectly smooth and even; i is an opening through which
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