Starting Levers—Preferably two, one at each side, on medium size machines, to start and stop the machines.
Table—A slab of metal upon which the stock is laid and handled for cutting.
Table, Front Side Extensions—Wings bolted on the front table upon which work may be handled before and after cut without having to turn around.
Toggling Crank—A device on hand-lever cutters that increases the power as knife goes down and eliminates jumping on the lever to get the knife down through the lower part of the cut.
Treadle, Foot (for clamping)—A convenience which leaves the operator's two hands free to handle the work while locating the line of the cut by pulling down the clamp with foot treadle.
Vertical Stroke—An attachment for shear or double-shear stroke cutting machines which brings the knife down vertically, instead of side-ways. It is used with knives of a special shape to cut irregular or fancy edges or to pink cloth samples. See Fig. 9, page 17.
TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES
The following list of publications, comprising the Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices, has been prepared under the supervision of the Committee on Education of the United Typothetae of America for use in trade classes, in courses of printing instruction, and by individuals.
Each publication has been compiled by a competent author or group of authors, and carefully edited, the purpose being to provide the printers of the United States—employers, journeymen, and apprentices—with a comprehensive series of handy and inexpensive compendiums of reliable, up-to-date information upon the various branches and specialties of the printing craft, all arranged in orderly fashion for progressive study.
The publications of the series are of uniform size, 5 × 8 inches. Their general make-up, in typography, illustrations, etc., has been, as far as practicable, kept in harmony throughout. A brief synopsis of the particular contents and other chief features of each volume will be found under each title in the following list.