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Identifier: annualreportof5421900newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Regents
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: New York State Museum University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
Subjects: New York State Museum Science
Publisher: Albany : J.B. Lyon, State Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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4i CLAYS OF NEW YORK 663 charged into the machine, from which it is forced in the form ofa rectangular bar whose cross-section ha© the same area as thegreatest plane surface, or the end of the brick. The bar of clay as itissues from the machine is received on the cntting table, and eitheris cut up into brick by means of a series of parallel wires setin a frame which slides across the cutting table, in which case themachine stops when the bar has issued a certain lengi:h, or thebar of clay issues continuously, and is cut up by means of wires on arevolving frame. The plunger machine consists of a large iron cylinder into whichthe clay is charged. From this it is forced out through the die. The Quger machine consists of a cylinder with a conical end. Inthis is a horizontal shaft bearing a screw or knife blades so set thattheir action will force the clay forward. At the forward end of theshaft is an iron screw which forces the clay out through the die.The clay is fed at the large end of

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