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Updated: October 25, 2026
In the two end-pieces of a heavy iron frame were set three rolls, or cylinders one in the centre, another below, and the other above all three being in a vertical line. These rolls were about three feet in diameter, made of cast-iron, and had face-plates of chilled-iron. The lowest roll was set in a fixed bearing at the bottom of the frame, and, therefore, could only turn around on its axis.
The waiters between the end-pieces were in the form of parallelograms, the ends about one third part of the length of the sides; and the whole of these waiters were filled with alabaster figures, taken from the ancient mythology, but none of them such as to offend, in the smallest degree, against delicacy.