Slowly as he looked, clamping his strong white teeth together with the effort, Morales straightened out his contracted right arm and felt, beneath the blanket, for the revolver at his waist.
Without so much as a softening glance toward the pale and fearful girl, he marched out of the cabana, his bootsclamping down in firm measured strides.
Many ways of clamping the tire to the rim have been contrived.
In fitting pen and pencil points to a spring like G it would probably be economical to make them outright; that is, make the blades and screw for the ruling pen and a spring or clamping tube for the pencil point.
H, and k a clamping screw to fasten I in position.
As no cementing material had been discovered, walls were rendered exceptionally strong either by carefully fitting their stones into one another or fly clamping them together by metal.
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In this improved tool there is a clamping bolt by which the cutters are clamped fast after being adjusted.
The skates were laid face downward on the blocks with the clamping levers open; then we marked the places where the clamping jaws touched the wood and drilled holes at these points.
Into these slots the trunnions of the mirror were placed, and then the nuts were screwed tightly on, clamping the sticks against the sides of the mirror.
P is the screw clamping the head-piece on to the patient’s head.
By moving these nuts up or down on the standards the armature may be brought closer to or farther from the poles, and the device affords ready means for clamping the parts into any position to which they may have been adjusted.
The fuse is inserted in the circuit by clamping the terminals under screws or sliding them between clips as in Figs.
Clamped against the head of this stud, by a screw-threaded clamping ring 7, is a mica washer, or disk 6.
The steel spring 5 is rigidly mounted in the clamping piece 9 at the upper part of the bracket 3, and the reed tongue is permitted to vibrate only by the flexibility of this spring.
A nut 7, engaging the end of a screw-threaded shank from the back of the rear electrode, serves to bind these two parts together securely, clamping the mica washer between them.
A collar, clutch or clamping piece, which has jaws to hold a bar or rod.
There must also be change wheels, studs and quadrant plates, self-acting feed for surfacing and cross slide, and clamping nuts.
For example, if we produce a block, by clamping at C between A and B (fig.
Large microscope=, inclinable, with hinged joint and clamping lever and fitted with round revolving centering stage.
It is in construction similar to the foregoing, but is provided with joint for inclination andclamping lever, and can be used at any angle.
The stand is inclinable and has a hinged joint and clamping lever.
T'', is a cleft clamping collar, which serves to support the shaft T.
The lower part is now heated and placed in the clamping machine, which is merely an iron plate firmly bolted to a mass of timber, and bearing upon its surface four iron pins.
The two rulers s s serve as guides to preserve the motions truly parallel; and the two parallel lath bars b c guide between them the end bar e, of the plough, whose knife is shown at i, with its clamping screw z.
A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing orclamping two pieces together.
The distinguishing feature of drawn shell motors is the field construction which consists of a steel shell or cylinder supporting and clamping together the stator or field punchings.
Hand-screws are of great use in clamping work that has been glued and for holding pieces in any required position.
Long clamps (cabinet-clamps), shown in the accompanying illustrations, are extremely useful in making glued joints and in various clamping operations.
In clamping together finished work or pieces which could be injured by the pressure, always put pieces of waste wood between the work and the hand-screws.
In addition to this, the pressure from clamping at only one or two points, or at points too far apart, may force the joint to open elsewhere.
The adjustment is effected by means of clamping and butting screws on the eye-end, and a change of the line of collimation, with respect to the finders and the circles, is avoided.
With all methods of clamping an untoward result is sometimes the formation of a fresh crack at the point of insertion of the clamps.
Clamping by any method should be advised or undertaken only under certain conditions.
A method of clamping which, on account of its simplicity, has become greatly popular, is that of Vachette.
The first place to look when work is not cut true, after making sure there is correct clamping pressure, is the knife.
A higher pile on a fifty-inch power cutter may take three tons pressure, plus the automatic clamping effort and plus frictional losses, and (more important) plus a tremendous increase in case the knife is dull.
A clamping motion that will first exert a gentle pressure to squeeze the air out between the sheets and pack the pile down evenly all over and then apply a powerful pressure before the knife strikes the pile, gives the best results.
Inaccurate cutting is also due to insufficient clamping pressure, allowing the pile to slip out of place slightly; or to excessive clamping pressure, compressing the pile more than necessary just at the line behind the knife cut.
The clamp returns automatically to the top by touching the treadle lightly with the foot and giving the clamping wheel a slight backward turn.
The occasional clampingof the hoofs of a galloping horse showed, too, that his dreaded foes were close at hand.
Judging from the clamping hoofs, such might have been the case.
This may be done either in a tail vise or by a handscrew, or by clamping the bench-hook firmly in the vise in such a way that the cleat of the bench-hook overhangs the piece.
This can be prevented by clamping the work down tight with a handscrew to a perfectly smooth cutting board.
The crew redoubled its exertion, clamping its peaveys here and there, apparently at random, but in reality with the most definite of purposes.
Handscrews are convenient for a great variety of uses, as clamping up glued pieces, holding pieces together temporarily for boring, Fig.
This may be done by clamping to it a handscrew, the jaw of which rests on the top of the bench, Fig.
Clamping down his brakes with a wrench that almost tore the insides out of his engine the Senior Surgeon brought the great car to a staggering standstill.
Clamping down the brakes with a wrench and a racket like the smash of a machine-shop the White Linen Nurse jumped out into the brook, and with one wild terrified glance behind her staggered back up the long grassy slope to the Senior Surgeon.
Bars of wood are placed outside of the carbon plates, and the four bars are fastened together by two common wood screws, thus clamping all the bars and the zinc and carbon plates securely in the position of use.
The contact blade is held between the jaws by their clamping friction until the handle compresses the spring sufficiently to force the blade out.
In place of the wooden block, used in early machines, for fastening the middle part of the connectors, they may be anchored to an insulated clamping device built up like a commutator and for that reason called a false commutator.
This base has clamping bolts which permit adjusting the position of the motor while suspended.
The panels were joined into a ring by clamps across the joints, this clamping action and the friction of the concrete holding them in place.
After the mold has passed along, these iron plates are supported by upright sticks and by horizontal clamping rods.
The bracket molds consisted of two side pieces provided with grooves for receiving the front and back pieces, and with slots for tie rods clamping the whole mold together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clamping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: compression; crush; nip; pinch; press; pressure; squeeze; squeezing; tightening; tweak
