DISCHARGING. 
arn a befides being lefs b-illiant at firft, = found 
e fo foon, that the difcharged ones do already, ina 
te — and will — very foon entirely, fuper- 
em 
reat preflure without yielding 
A gro = plan, and tranfverfe elevated fection 
ser — oo 
nd the lowe 
or copper, which is tightly dtiven j into a a cle fo ey in the 
plate, ax peas with a compolitica of white lead and 
ich is diftin- 
guifhed by the letters A, A, A, A, = a r 
About the upper plate or cover isa o pre e dif- 
charging a from aang off, ah is Wiineuithed by 
the ee B, 
two notches C the gn pillars D, D, 
and thus the upper plate, a rifing and linking, is guided 
in fix different places. The clevation and depreffion of the 
cover is effected by turning the wa i. e form 
upper and under plates, and the pattern being reprefented by 
Jig. 3, the remaining parts of the at will be more aie 
{een by referring to fig. 4, which is a tranfverfe elevated fec- 
ae - the prefs, cut in the direction of the dotted line F F, 
of the 
oie letters of deans ine. 4, ate the fame for each 
a 28 in fig. 3, but fome parts are diftinétly feen in the lat- 
which do noe in the former, and thefe are difin- 
erailhed by teat ee As in fis. 35 reprefent 
the upper plate or cover of the prefs. ‘I'he rims are fhewn 
by the letters B.B. ‘The notches which grafp the oe. 
pillars are marked C, C, and the pillars D,D. e {cre 
which raifes and finks the cover of a e prefs is - canes a 
rs D, D, is an 
the prefs, and thus raifes or fake it as may is neceflary. Upo 
the {crew awheel KK, through the arms of 
pa is put oe — ufed for {crewing down and raifing 
cover, as in arge preiles. The fole or bottom of 
i ‘ied is ditingwihe by the letters L,L. It is placed 
xactl zontal diretion, and is fupported by fix 
. 
ad cular legs, namely, one at each corner, 
and the lower parts of the pillars D, D, in the middle. Be- 
tween the cover and bottom, the cloth to be difcharged is 
placed at MM. 
The mechanical part of this procefs is, in almok every 
refpeét, entirely fimilar to that ufed by cloth dreffere, book- - 
binders, and many other tradefmen who employ ftrong 
To enfure ne accuracy of its operation,. 
correétnefs of workmanfhip, 
neceflary, and thefe are indifpenfable 
be fixed, fo that both the cover and bottom may be 
i ottom mut be pert eal iev 
s in en cover mult all e 
bottom, with equa al pre The 
mult alfo be cxai with the ho eg or 
he bottom, and th mu 
but at the fame ae to oe any aberration of the cover 
in rifipg or finking. m - great preffure — 
when the cover is fcrewed dov reat care ought to be 
taken that the whole of the pores of the prefs be ex-- 
atly perpendicular, and that the prefs, when oma placed, - 
fhould be ftrongly ecured. 
well m 
ade and properly fz ra ia 
cefs of manufaGture is remarkably fimple. oth 
The 
pearance, pofleffes a decide r 
ever the Pullicate handkerchiefs, and other imitations of the 
Indian manufaéture, where the 
has undergone in the dyers’ hands ; r 
the procefs this perhaps applies to no colour in fo great a de-- 
gree ast y It foll at the wages given to 
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to the impediments which they have to encouster, and to: 
the fmaller quantity of cloth which their exertions can of 
confequence produce. Befides this, all handkerchiefs orna- 
mented in the loom, are confined to what is called checking ; - 
and oe various colours muft be interwoven either parallel 
or at angles-to each other, unlefs very complicated 
and onl gical expenfive mounting be u ti 
confumed in changing the colours of the wo 
in no {mail degree, ine {pee the operation ; and th 
vature of his materials, and the mechanical ope- 
the fame as calicoes, cambrics, and 
impediment of this kind occurs, and the whole labour and 
expence are in ea ee procefs, and the fum funk in . 
procuring the 
After t e one hy is woven, it is cleared from impurities, 
yar 
ed. 
tay folded in fquares, of about 10 or 12 folds, 
upon the fole or under plate of the gy the cover being 
previoufly elevated by means of the fcrew and whecl. 
When the cloth has been properly diipot d, as at MM, the - 
cover is brought down in contaét with its upper forface, and . 
a lever being applied to the {crew and wheel, the upper and 
ender plates are ‘al raaiie together, the cloth being 
between them. ‘The under part of each of the perforated 
tubes now preffes hard mel the upper furface of the cloth, . 
and being perpendicularly over the holes in the under plate, , 
= part of the difcharging lancr gan elcape, grea 
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