roller sliden.
/ˈrəʊlə ˌslʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər ˌslaɪd/ΚΠ
1834 Mechanics' Mag. 28 June 210/2 The action of this spring is to pull either of the arms of the frame C and D (carrying the roller slide) up to the rosette.
1868 U.S. Patent 80,376 2 This roller has its bearings in slides f f.., said slides being connected by a cross-bar, h... I claim the roller-slide f h, arranged in grooves g, in the sides of the compartment d.
2. Photography. A slide (slide n. 7c) for rolling the sensitive paper or film from one spool to another by a fixed amount corresponding to the width of the image area. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > plate-holders or boxes
dark box1839
plate holder1850
slide1856
repeating back1867
cassette1875
roller slide1877
kit1885
sheath1890
1877 Photographic News 2 Mar. 98/2 With the roller slide you may expose in one day two, or twenty plates, just as you please.
1901 Photographic Dealer Jan. 23/1 A folding camera which may be supported on a tripod or by hand, and used with a dark slide or roller slide.
2008 C. Harding in J. Hannavy Encycl. Nineteenth-century Photogr. II. 1207/1 They described a camera attachment called a roller slide or rollholder containing a band made by gumming together sheets of sensitized paper.
3. A movable carriage or table that moves over a set of rollers; a mechanism holding such rollers.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > carriage
carriage1659
wheel-carriage1845
roller slide1907
1907 Bureau Drawer June 2/3 The L. B. roller slides do not rack and jar the case... They run more easily than the plain slides.
1922 tr. G. Stumpf Una-flow Steam-engine (ed. 2) ii. 150 The reciprocating roller slide of the Stumpf gear has..been replaced by the pivoted roller lever.
1955 Billboard 26 Mar. 44/1 Two roll or bread drawers are mounted on roller slides.
2003 U. Schmidt Building Kitchen Cabinets xi. 128/3 Nylon roller slides are the most common slides used in manufacturing cabinets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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