 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 978 pages
...buildings, a chain is frequently used with an anchor. The link may be a ling, or a bar of any length with it ring or an eye at each end, or a bar with a hook at...strongest form will be obtained when the sides of the chajn are parallel to the line of strain. But as this is often in a direction perpendicular to the... | |
 | William Kemmis - Carriage and wagon making - 1874 - 296 pages
...service. Mortar caps are made of canvass waterproofed. Harness for man draught is made of 2^" white rope, with a hook at one end and an eye at the other, and fitted with web loops to go over the men's shoulders, thonged to the rope at intervals of 3|-'.... | |
 | George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson - English language - 1876 - 676 pages
...occasionally required. It consists, as described in the ' Treatise on Military Carriages,' of white rope, with a hook at one end and an eye at the other, 'and fitted with web loops to go over the men's shoulders. The harness is heavy and %Ai, and would... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Archaeology - 1888 - 528 pages
...bracelets, and ankle-rings still in their places. The diadem consisted of a semi-circular bronze ring with a hook at one end and an eye at the other for fastening it to a band behind, and with remains of threads at intervals round its girth showing... | |
 | George Underwood - Building - 1927 - 436 pages
...to the steel frame, utilizing a guy tightener to do the pulling. The guy tightener may be equipped with a hook at one end and an eye at the other or each end may contain an eye. The shank of the turnbuckle should be 1 or 1J4 inches in diameter.... | |
 | Philip Willson Barber - Theaters - 1928 - 288 pages
...pulley, such as are used in hanging clotheslines. Block refers to a pulley with a wooden mounting, with a hook at one end and an eye at the other. Patent blocks are ball-bearing. Common blocks are without ball bearings. Sheaves are single pulleys... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1861 - 556 pages
...counter-cables (Plate III, Fig. 3) are suspended from suspension beams by round iron rods 1 inch diameter, with a hook at one end and an eye at the other, through •which passes a reversed iron stirrup of the same dimensions whose branches and cross-piece... | |
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... with a hook at one end and an eye at the other ; links furnished with eyes are joined by links furnished with hooks, or by keys, pins and wedges. 