The metal worker's handy-book of receipts and processes : being a collection of chemical formulas and practical manipulations for the working of all the metals and alloys including the decoration and beautifying of articles manufactured therefrom, as well as their preservation (1890)
Brannt, William T. (William Theodore), 1844- · Philadelphia : H. Carey Baird & Co. ; London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington · leaf 453
tals than iron and steel it re¬ mains to be said that they are generally drawn from small square blocks cut from sheet. The strips are rounded off in the draw- iron and gradually drawn out to the desired diameter. Annealing is more or less required with all metals ; copper requires but little, it… … which are provided with corresponding grooves to a guide f. The latter feeds the wire to the circular knives in such a manner that it is cut through longitudinally in the direction of its axis and wound upon the two receiving reels d and d’ . Barbed Wire. — This variety of wire consists of wire…
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