Image Gallery I - Making the Beaver Press
Image 1 - End view diagram of the Beaver Press
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An end view diagram of the Beaver press with various parts identified.
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Image 1 - End view diagram of the Beaver Press
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A line drawing showing the end view of a printing press with words identifying specific parts.
Caption:
Spindle - The screw to which the bar of the press is affixed, and which produces the pressure on the platen.
Head - That part of a wooden press in which the nut of the spindle is fixed.
Nut
Till, or Shelf - A mahogany shelf, in wooden presses, divided in two longitudinally, that clasps the hose, and causes it and the spindle to come down perpendicularly without any play.
Hose - Two upright bars of iron that connected the garter and the hose hooks, and went through the till.
Platen - The platen is that part of the machine which comes down upon the form, and, being acted upon by the spindle, produces the impression.
Credit:
Image by Ken Stone, MIT Hobby Shop.
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