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WHIRLER [5 records]

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Record 1 2010-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Printing Processes - Various
OBS

Watercote : The oldest prepress color proofing system in continuous use is Watercote, manufactured by Direct Reproduction Corporation. It has limited application because of the length of time needed to produce proofs, but it is available in the largest sizes of any prepress material. The base consists of a white plastic sheet which is coated in a whirler with a sensitizer pigmented to match one of the process colors. It is then dried, exposed to the appropriate negative, and developed. After drying, the plastic is recoated with a pigmented sensitizer for a second color, dried, exposed to the next negative in register, and developed. This process is continued until the print is completed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Procédés d'impression divers
CONT

Dans le procédé Watercote, on couche successivement dans une tournette, sur une feuille de plastique blanc brillant, les couches sensibles colorées, qu'on insole et développe à chaque fois [...].

OBS

Watercote est une marque déposée.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
CONT

A mini-tornado ripped through a housing estate causing thousands of pounds damage to homes and gardens.... It was a right whirler. It only lasted about seven seconds. But you could feel everything going, everything shaking with the pressure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
CONT

J'ai vu la trombe de vent soulever une maison de l'autre côté des voies et la projeter dans les airs. [...] Lorsque j'ai vu que la tornade se dirigeait vers nous, j'ai hurlé à ma femme de sortir, et au moment même où nous sommes sortis, l'édifice s'est écroulé comme un château de cartes. Si nous n'étions pas sortis à temps, nous serions morts.

Spanish

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Record 3 1996-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
DEF

The application of a light-sensitized matter on the surface of an offset plate, usually by means of a whirler.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
DEF

Application d'une matière sensible à la lumière sur la surface d'une plaque offset, habituellement à l'aide d'une tournette.

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pottery
DEF

Wheel with a top that turns freely, used to decorate or to rotate any work of clay.

CONT

A whirler can also double as a small potter's wheel for forming pottery pieces or small ceramic figures.

OBS

A whirler can also rotate by electrical power.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poteries
DEF

Plateau monté sur un socle fixe, que l'on fait tourner à la main pour modeler, retoucher ou décorer une poterie.

CONT

Laissez le pot sur la tournette jusqu'à ce qu'il soit dur [...]

OBS

Une tournette facilite le montage de figurines.

Spanish

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Record 5 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
  • Photography
CONT

No specific instructions can be given for coating(whirling) plates : the character of the applied film is influenced by... viscosity of the sensitizing solution... and the speed or rate of drying in the whirler.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
  • Photographie
CONT

La plaque monte à travers un réservoir en forme de U contenant la solution sensibilisatrice et en emporte une couche régulière qui se trouve séchée par un dispositif de séchage.

Spanish

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