Pushbar
"Pushbar" in a Sentence (7 examples)
In a shingle-machine, the combination of the cam, pushbar, and lever with the hinged reciprocating feeder and cutter-head and the weighted cord for drawing the feeder toward the blank, as shown and described.
One covers an apparatus for advancing and converging the type necessary to form a word so that they may be readily grasped by the compositor, and the other does away with the pushbar shown in the cut, which the compositor strikes as he grasps the type.
The pushbar switch controls the lamp, so that the light can be switched on or off while the iron is in use.
Most kinemas have outer exit doors in pairs, and, in the past, the practice has been to have these rebated on the centre meeting stiles, one door having a panic bolt and the other a pushbar which knocks against and thus operates the panic bolt.
Shw saw the door with the pushbar and charged it, hands out, smashing the door open so hard that it hit off something outside and rebounded.
The child had been struck by the pushbar of the engine, knocked down head foremost, and in being passed over by the engine had been so gyrated that though she had fallen to the ground head foremost she was picked up with her head to the rear.
On our tow vehicle, which was a Buick Riviera, Jack had welded a horizontal pushbar that would meet the vertical bar in a criss-corss fashion.
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