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HAMMERED STEEL [7 records]

Record 1 2017-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
DEF

A steel bar, pointed at one end, with a shank and upset collar at the other, which is hammered into rock by the miner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
DEF

Outil constitué d'une pointe en acier adaptée dans un manche sur laquelle le mineur frappait autrefois avec une massette pour détacher des blocs de roche.

CONT

Les pointerolles sont des outils en forme de prisme de fer long de 30 à 40 cm, pointu à une extrémité, formant une tête à l'autre, percé en son milieu d'un œil où on adaptait une manche de 40 cm tenu d'une main par le mineur tandis que de l'autre il frappait avec une massette de 3 à 4 kg sur la tête de la pointerolle.

CONT

[...] fin du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance [...] les galeries [de mine] étaient creusées en général au marteau et à la pointerolle (burin avec un manche) [...]

OBS

Dans le monde entier, la pointerolle à manche et la massette, croisées, sont reconnues comme l'emblème des mineurs.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

Pitons(or "pins", or "pegs") are steel devices, usually spike-shaped, which are hammered into cracks [in the rock] to secure anchors. The shapes are many, but every modern piton has an eye [or an eye and ring] through which a carabiner is clipped.

CONT

Pitons may be crudely described as metal spikes which are pounded into cracks in the rock ... Until 1960 most pitons were made of soft iron ... which would bend to fit the crack into which it was driven ... [They have] been replaced ... by the newer, stronger chrome-molybdenum alloy pitons, ... the safest and strongest ....

OBS

The elliptical term "piton" is almost always used instead of "rock piton" when it is clear from the context that the author is discussing rock climbing tools.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

Lame métallique qui est enfoncée dans une fissure ou une aspérité de la roche avec un marteau, et qui agit comme un ancrage pour protéger le grimpeur des conséquences d'une chute, ou aider à la progression en escalade artificielle. La lame est terminée par un œil pour y placer un mousqueton.

CONT

Les pitons. [...] On peut les classer [...] en fonction de leur forme, donc de la forme de l'anfractuosité dans laquelle ils doivent prendre place. [...] les pitons classiques [...] sont en acier doux; ils peuvent être tordus [...]. Les pitons en acier au chrome [...] sont au contraire très résistants et très solides [...]

OBS

Le terme elliptique «piton» est presque toujours employé au lieu de «piton de rocher» quand, à cause du contexte, le lecteur ne le confondrait pas avec un piton à glace.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Hardware
  • Metal Fasteners
DEF

A small corrugated strip of steel sharp on one of the long edges and hammered in as a fastener across wood joints in rough carpentry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Quincaillerie du bâtiment
  • Clouterie et visserie

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drilling and Boring (Construction)
  • Wind Energy
DEF

A large steel pile used for securing an offshore wind turbine to which it is attached, that is hammered and burried deeply in a hole dug in the seabed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Colonne d'acier enfouie dans le sol marin par enfoncement et/ou vibrations que l'on raccorde au pylône d'une éolienne offshore afin de la solidifier.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-12-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

A steel block with a bevelled edge against which the teeth of a saw are hammered in spring-setting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

[...] masse inerte en acier trempé dont une arête active possède un chanfrein nommé biseau. La profondeur du chanfrein détermine la longueur de la cuillère d'écrasement.

CONT

L'écrasement des dents (de la lame d'une scie) s'opère entre une enclume et un marteau appelé «excentrique».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aserradura de la madera
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Record 6 1999-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1.24 and 2.5 pounds per base box - on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box.

CONT

Tin Plate.... When coated by the hot-dip process, the tin plate was termed coke tin plate or charcoal tin plate. When coated by the electrolytic process, it is termed electrolytic tin plate.... Hot-Dipped Tin Plate. Tin plate formerly was produced by the hot-dip tinning of thin plates that had been hammered or rolled from bars of puddled iron. The pig iron used in pudding might have been made in blast furnaces using charcoal or coke as fuel. Plates made from "charcoal iron" were considered a more ductile and higher grade product; hence, tin plate made by coating charcoal-iron plates with tin(charcoal tin plate) was regarded as a product of higher quality than tin plate with a coke-iron base(coke tin plate). At present, the designation "charcoal tin plate" merely indicates plate with a relatively heavy tin coating as compared with "coke tin plate" as described below, and has no significance so far as quality of the steel base is concerned.

OBS

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
Key term(s)
  • fer-blanc à étamage fort
  • fer-blanc de qualité «charcoal»

Spanish

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Record 7 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acier

Spanish

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