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KNIFE MARK [5 records]

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Record 1 2004-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Tools
CONT

A siding gauge or preacher is a small piece of hardwood used for accurately marking siding pieces to fit between two openings and to give equal exposure.

CONT

Malco SD40 Double 4" Siding Gauge. [Followed by an illustration. ] Use it as a scribe or square to mark or score precise lines on double 4-inch vinyl siding panels. Or go straight to cutting either rip or square cross cuts. A utility knife blade can be inserted in the precise 1/8-inch hole increments as easily as a pencil or scoring tool.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outils (Construction)

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
  • Woodworking
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
DEF

Traces of the cutting trajectory left by successive cutters of a peripheral-milling cutterblock.

OBS

cutter mark: term used in the Commonwealth.

Key term(s)
  • cutter marks
  • knife marks

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
  • Travail du bois
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
DEF

Traces du passage successif des couteaux d'une machine à travail tangentiel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aserradura de la madera
  • Trabajo de la madera
  • Instalaciones y equipo (Industria maderera)
Key term(s)
  • señales de cuchilla
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Record 3 2000-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paper Manufacturing Processes
DEF

Broad indentations in the coating surface, 3 mm (1/8") or wider and over a foot in length in the machine direction. The centre of indentation usually appears less opaque than the general coated area when viewed by transmitted light. The edges of indentation may or may not appear more opaque than the general coated area.

OBS

Coarser than a blade scratch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication du papier
DEF

Fine rainure, en sens machine, de plus de 30 centimètres de longueur, laissée par la racle ou la jet d'air de la coucheuse. Observée par transparence, elle apparaît moins opaque que la région couchée périphérique.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
  • Woodworking
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
CONT

cutter marks : Traces of the cutting trajectory left by successive cutters of a peripheral-milling cutterblock.... If the cutters are perfectly jointed at operating speeds, each cutter in the cutterblock will leave an identical trace; otherwise the cutting trajectory of only one(projecting) knife may show at each revolution, its trace then being termed a revolution mark.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
  • Travail du bois
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
CONT

marque de couteau : Traces du passage successif des couteaux d'une machine à travail tangentiel. [...] si les couteaux sont convenablement ajustés dans les porte-outils, aux vitesses de travail, chaque couteau laisse une trace identique et par conséquent indistincte : s'ils ne le sont pas, la trace de l'un deux est visiblement distincte de celle des autres à chaque tour : c'est une empreinte cyclique [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paper Manufacturing Processes
DEF

Narrow track of low ink acceptance in machine direction, due to a coating defect traceable to the air knife.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication du papier
DEF

Filet laissé sur le papier, dans le sens machine, par un mauvais réglage de la lame d'air de la coucheuse.

Spanish

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