mandril

In this process, unless the time of revolution of the mandril is the same as that of the screw which guides the cutting point, the number of threads in a given length will be different.

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831

A steel axis, called a mandril, having a pulley attached to the middle of it, is supported at one end either by a conical point, or by a cylindrical collar, and at the other end by another collar, through which it passes.

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831

I opened it up with a mandril Saturday night and we'll see how it goes tonight at band rehearsal.

10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002

This method consists in rolling a sheet of concrete and wire netting into a solid cylinder on a mandril, by means of a special machine.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

When the tube for a length of pipe is completed the inside shell reinforcement previously made is slipped into it and the outside shell reinforcement is formed on it as a mandril, as shown by Fig. 271.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

Fig. 65 is a sketch showing a cross-section of a finished pile, in which the dotted line shows the wire netting, the hollow circle is the gas pipe mandril, and the solid circles are the longitudinal reinforcing bars.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

One edge of the netting is fastened to the platform, the other edge is attached to the winding mandril.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

Before their eyes he made pipe -- spirally wound around a mandril and line-welded to solidity.

The Pirates of Ersatz Murray Leinster 1935

What these characters indicate may be learned from the male mandril, whose face, particularly in the breeding season, shows colored fleshy prominences each side of the nose, with conspicuous furrows and ridges.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899

In the male mandril these characters have been developed because, being an unmistakable sign of sexual ardor, they gave the female particular evidence of sexual feelings.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899