Do not blame me, Good woman, for the tympan and the harp: I was bid fly the terror of the times And wrap me round with music and sweet song Or else pine to my grave.
They are off again: ladies or gentlemen Travel in the woods with tympan and with harp.
The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
It is practically impossible to secure a steady and uniform pressure unless the scraper and tympan are carefully adjusted.
To reduce the enormous friction caused by this pressure the back of the tympan is usually dressed with a mixture of tallow and plumbago, a dressing which requires frequent renewal.
The pressure of the boxwood scraper B on the surface of the stone is perfectly rigid, and yet, owing to the intervention of the tympan C, is sufficiently elastic to ensure the closest possible contact.
The tympan employed for receiving is made of gold-beater's skin, having a stud at its centre and a springy stylus of steel wire.
Over the cylinder is supported a diaphragm ortympan T, provided with a conical mouthpiece M for speaking into.
This position has to be ascertained by trial before covering with the second or tympan frame.
After releasing the pressure, the bed is withdrawn, the tympan and masking frames thrown back, and the printing paper cautiously raised by one corner.
This again is covered, with the tympan attached to its frame.
The scraper—not shown in the illustration—works on the tympan =O=.
The length of traverse of the bed during printing can on most presses be regulated by side screws, or the tympan may be lightly marked.
The bed of the press and the form of types are concealed by the tympan drawer, which, with tympan and frisket, have been folded down and run under the platen.
Illustration: The Frisket, Tympanand Bed of a European Hand Printing Press.
The sheet is laid on the tympan against guides that keep it in place.
Frisket, Tympan and Bed of an early European Printing Press .
The tympan is then folded over on the line C D, which operation brings the paper down on the face of the form, ready to receive the impression.
The accident was not noticed; the tympan closed upon the form, and the bed was drawn under the platen.
The composition, which fills the tympanof the scarcely-pointed arch, represents Christ surrounded by the twelve Apostles.
The portal is very wide and deeply recessed, and the tympan is crowded with bas-reliefs, the sculpture of which, rude yet expressive, is of a striking originality.
The ornament is nearly confined to the tympan over the portal, the capitals of columns, and to the choir with its seven absidal chapels.
In the lower half of the tympan Satan is enthroned, his feet resting upon a writhing and hideously grimacing figure, supposed to be that of Judas.
The interest of the exterior is centred upon the bas-relief representing the Last Judgment, which fills the entire tympan of the arch covering the two main doorways.
An eighteenth-century doorway had been added to it, and the tympan of the pediment was quite filled up with hanging plants.
Attached to the upper end of the inner frame by hinges was a thin and narrow frame, called the "frisket," of the same length and width as the inner tympan frame.
Mechanisms are employed to move the "tympan sheet" or outside covering of the second cylinder along at fixed intervals, but they are complicated and troublesome.
When the sheets of paper had been placed upon the tympan frame, the frisket was folded down upon it, and the two were then turned down over the form of type.
This façade is of the fifteenth century and on the tympan of the dormer windows one may still see the monogram of its builder, Cottereau.
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