Several men were bending eagerly over the rampart, and, with their muskets at the recover, riveting their gaze on a dark and motionless object that lay on the verge of the ditch immediately beneath them.
Now, however, pneumatic riveting machines are used out of doors.
And then, to crown the whole, there are the pneumatic tools, the chipping and riveting machines.
Formerly all the repair riveting was done by hand.
Nearly all the riveting is done by hand; very little is left to the chance work of the machine, which is often faulty and unreliable.
So it was "the lady's" shriek that I had heard as they were riveting my cage to the top of the arch.
I saw, as if in a dream, that they had lifted the lad from the ground and had placed him in the niche, and that the blacksmith was engaged in riveting the chain at the top of the headpiece to a ring bolt in the roofing of the arch.
Again, the Jesuits are accused of riveting fetters on the human mind in order to uphold their power, and to sustain the absolutism of the popes and the absolutism of kings, to which they were equally devoted.
Then the blacksmith took his shovel in one hand and his rivetinghammer in the other, and hung the old stable lantern on his little finger, and went down to get the coals.
Probably not," said the monk, rivetinghis eyes on the ground.
He loosened his hold upon her, and caught her hand, riveting his burning eyes upon the gem, that returned the glare with flashes of ruby fire.
Morton led his wife to a point of vantage, and bid her look upward, riveting his eyes upon her face the while with a hungry longing.
As they drew near the almost finished ship the noise of the riveting which had been but a vague palpitation of the air became a well-nigh intolerable staccato.
When it came back he lay still for a while, pretending to be unconscious until the gang had dispersed, satisfied, and Sutton was making ready to begin riveting again.
A wire handle must be fixed by riveting to the end of this, and two pegs driven into the deck, one on each side, in front, to prevent the handle being turned too far to either side.
If the cylinders are made without screw-crossheads the pin of the cranks must be placed through the hole in the heads before riveting the cranks together.
Join the cranks together in pairs by riveting in these wires, being careful to keep the cranks at right angles to the shaft, and also to keep the several pieces of the shaft in the same straight line.
Illustration: Combination stake] Here is a tool which is a combination of anvil stake and riveting tool.
IX HOW TO RIVET Riveting is one of the processes of joining two pieces of metal together without the use of solder.
I use it for drawing out pieces of copper into different shapes; flattening round pieces, rounding up flat ones, and for riveting pieces of metal together, as you must do when you make a piece of work like my box.
Another of his inventions was the method of riveting by compression instead of by blows of the hammer.
On the other hand, for riveting the reverse will be the case.
When, however, the riveting begins to bed the pin, four equidistant places may be riveted home in advance so as to bring the pin home and hold it firmly.
If the copper is, in riveting up, brought to bear against the end of the slot, it will twist the segments out of line one with the other, causing the saw to drag, cut roughly and produce bad work.
If in this class of work the riveted piece (as the crank-pin) is not driven in very tight before riveting, the riveting blows will be apt to jar the pin back.
The riveting usually performed by the machinist is generally upon cold metal.
The riveting should be done with a small light ball-pened hammer, the blows being delivered very lightly and evenly all round the edge.
This usually occurs from not riveting the area at and near the circumference sufficiently, although it may occur from riveting that part of the area too much.
The fit between the jaws is restored by riveting pieces of sheet brass to that side of the brasses that has worn the most (usually the top which carries the weight of the rod).
A more important defect is, however, that the heat generated by the compression of the rivet while riveting it is sufficiently great to burn the leather beneath the rivet-head.
The pene is mostly used for riveting purposes, and it is obvious that with the pene at a right angle to the handle axis as in Fig.
By riveting the straight-edges together the surface becomes broader and the file operates steadier, while the edges of the straight-edge are left more square.
This may be accomplished, if the existing plates are not too wasted at their edges, by riveting on new strips or angle-bars (see Figs.
It is apparent also that the free use of rolled instead of built-up sections, reduces the liability to trouble from bad riveting, or from good riveting overstressed.
Excess in riveting is a common extravagance, to which the same criticism may in a less degree apply.
The riveting is about the last operation in making a girder, each rivet being freed of all rust by heating, and quickly coming under the protection of oil or paint.
The author prefers to arrange them to miss, by which device each connection is entirely separate, the riveting can be more efficiently executed, erection is simplified, and the rivets will be more likely to keep tight.
There is small chance of these ever being properly tight, if the act of riveting is rendered difficult by bad design.
The riveting in the outer girder diagonals, subject to smaller stresses, much more frequently developed, also gave trouble, particularly those liable to counter stresses.
Needing no riveting nor anything else--and one could do it fast!
Things could be made of solid steel, he said sharply, without rolling or milling or die-casting the metal, and without riveting or arc-welding the parts together.
He sprayed shots along the line of targets at the bottom of the hill as the gun clattered away with all the clamor of a riveting machine at seven in the morning.
Somebody has said that machine gun fire sounds as if a crazy carpenter was shingling a roof, and somebody else has compared the noise to a typewriter being operated in an upper room, but it is still more like a riveting machine.
Thus, he felt the duress of loneliness making him slide deeper into disconnection as the stimulating and riveting air rushed through his hair.
The armor-maker sat inside with his back turned, all doubled over a helmet which he was riveting together upon his knee.
The man did not pause in his riveting even to turn about and face the stranger, but said quickly as if to finish speaking as rapidly as he could, "Friend, the people who are working for the sparrow-hawk have no time for idle questions.
One day he was put to riveting work on an enormous boiler, and for the first time found himself working with a power that was not the power of his own hands.
He stood once more as an apprentice in the mechanical works, riveting the plates of a gigantic boiler with a compressed-air tube--cling, clang!
The assembly and riveting took about 2 weeks for each shield; the riveting was done with pneumatic riveters, using compressed air direct from the tunnel supply.
It is best, having regard to the steadiness of the bell, that any necessary weighting of it should be done near its bottom rim, which moreover is usually stiffened by riveting to it a flange or curb of heavier gauge metal.
Joints exposed to acetylene under pressure must be made by riveting or welding except that in apparatus not exceeding 100 litres per hour productive capacity double bending may be used.
Yet was he capable, on great and interesting occasions, when addressing either the full court or a jury, of riveting the attention and exciting the emotions of his hearers.
His eyes were grey, rather small, and deep-set; but they had a power of riveting the attention of any one whom he was addressing, particularly in public.
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