单词 | rolling press |
释义 | rolling pressn. 1. a. A printing press in which the plate is passed on a flat bed under a revolving cylinder against which it is pressed; spec. a copperplate press of this type. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > cylindrical rolling press1625 stop-cylinder1874 multigraph1878 Miehle1887 Wharfe1888 1625 J. Norden England To Rdr. The generall [tables] can hardly be enlarged, to be imprinted, but by cutting in copper, and to be printed in a Roling Presse. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 42 One of his Servants to attend only M. Antonio's Rolling-press, and to work off his Plates. 1778 G. Colman in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Dram. Wks. i. Pref. p. xix The Rolling-Press, at a very considerable expence, has added its assistance. 1814 T. H. Horne Introd. Study Bibliogr. I. i. ii. 216 Most of the bank-bills of Massachusetts and New Hampshire are printed at rolling presses. 1875 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Wearing Apparel 1671–1866 8 The rolling press is used for the purpose of transferring impressions on to the leather. 1910 Jrnl. Accountancy 11 29 For nine years he toiled, and in 1840 succeeded in producing the first rolling press in America... The ‘Southwestern Sentinel’ was the first paper in the world to be printed in a continuous sheet by Warren's press. 2000 Oxoniensia 64 51 Book labels fulfil much the same function as bookplates, but unlike bookplates they are not produced in a rolling press from an engraved plate, but printed in an ordinary letterpress with type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > equipment rolling press1675 cylinder1764 surface roller1815 colour plate1819 colour pan1834 hand block1835 sieve1839 toby tub1842 wheelbarrow-machine1856 tension-rail1890 1675 London Gaz. No. 1728/4 A new Invention..for the Printing Broad Callicoes and Scotch Cloth, with a double~necked Rowling-Press. c. A press used for copying letters in which the letter to be copied is placed beneath a dampened piece of thin paper, before being passed between rollers. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [noun] > copying-machine rolling press1780 copying-press1785 copying-machine1803 letterpress1839 manifold letter writer1840 multigraph1878 chromograph1880 cyclostyle1883 graph1884 Roneo1901 jellygraph1919 Multilith1933 1780 J. Watt et al. Direct. for Using Machine for Copying Lett. & Other Writings 1 The Rolling Press is contained in the box (A), the lid of which is fastened on by screws. 1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 13 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 269 Another great curiosity was a rolling press, for taking the copies of letters or any other writing. 1848 Sci. Amer. 29 July 358/2 In one of the modes of performing letter copying, a sheet of very thin paper is damped and placed upon the writing to be copied. The two papers are then passed through a rolling press, and a portion of the ink from one paper is transferred to the other. 1917 W. C. Bruce Benjamin Franklin Self-revealed I. 1 The rolling press with which he copied his letters. 2. A press which flattens, smooths, etc., by means of cylinders or rollers; a rolling-machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press > other presses rolling press1785 packing press1796 steam press1801 bench press1852 platen press1854 hot press1943 1785 J. Watt Let. 9 Dec. in J. P. Muirhead Origin & Progress Mech. Inventions J. Watt (1854) II. 206 Passing 10 or 12 of them together once or twice through between the cylinder of a rolling-press. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 236 The old wooden rolling press..is an exceedingly simple contrivance. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 858 After being thus annealed, the metal is passed through the rolling press. 1862 Photogr. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 145/2 The rolling-press has now become indispensable in the mounting-room of the professional photographer. 1887 Harper's Mag. June 124/2 ‘Plate-paper’ was made by putting each sheet between brightly polished sheets of copper or zinc, and passing a stack of these to and fro through a rolling-press under heavy pressure until a gloss was imparted to both surfaces. 1939 U.S. Patent 2,297,244 1 The use of circular rolling presses of this kind has hitherto been attended by considerable difficulties. 2009 Internat. Jrnl. Adhesion & Adhesives 29 589 Adhesive was applied to the samples using a rolling press. Compounds General attributive, as rolling press printer, rolling press printing, etc. ΚΠ 1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2400 Rowing-press Printing was not used in England till King James the First. 1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 376 (heading) Rolling press ink. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 87 This is the first English book embellished with rolling-press cuts. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 552 Notice must be given to the rolling-press printer. 1839 T. Gill Sci. Treat. I. 40 (heading) Perkin's Rolling-press pivots, and bearings. 1941 Eng. Hist. Rev. 56 246 A number of rolling press officers. 1984 18th-cent. Stud. 17 407 The rolling-press printer, who was not always the same person as the letterpress printer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1625 |
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