Rollers Sentence Examples

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  • To prevent this various implements, such as disk harrows and specially constructed rollers, may be used to consolidate the upper stirred portion of the soil and place it in close capillary relationship with the lower unmoved layer.

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  • The pipes are best supported on rollers which allow of movement without straining the joints.

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  • In Louisiana two mills, set one behind the other, each with three rollers 32 in.

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  • Air goods, such as cushions, beds, gas bags, and so forth, are made of textile fabrics which have been coated with mixed rubber either by the spreading process above described, or by means of heated rollers, the curing being then effected by steam heat.

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  • The ropes are supported between the rails and guided on curves by rollers and sheaves.

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  • This method is rarely practised except by the rollers of zinc. A certain amount of refined zinc can be dipped from the furnace; a further amount, nearly free from iron, can be liquated out of the ingots cast from the bottom of the bath in a subsequent slow remelting, and it is sometimes possible to eliminate a zinciferous lead which collects in the sump of the furnace.

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  • Rollers up to 5 tons in weight are employed and are now generally driven by power.

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  • The more elaborate patterns found on what is known as " figure rolled plate " are produced in a somewhat different manner; the glass used for this purpose is considerably whiter in colour and much softer than ordinary rolled plate, and instead of being rolled out on a table it is produced by rolling between two moving rollers from which the sheet issues.

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  • It is driven by a powerful engine through triple gearing of 42 to 1, and speeded to have a surface velocity of rollers of 15 ft.

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  • The rope is carried on rollers between the rails.

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  • The silk to be opened is placed on a latticed sheet or feeder, and thus slowly conveyed to a series of rollers or porcupines (rollers set with rows of projecting steel pins), which hold the silk firmly while presenting it to the action of a large receiving drum, covered with a sheet of vulcanized rubber, set all over with fine steel teeth.

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  • The silk drawn by the rows of teeth on the drum through the porcupine rollers (or porcupine sheets in some cases) covers the whole of the drum, hooked at certain intervals round the teeth; and when a sufficient weight is on the machine, it is stopped, and an attendant cuts, with a knife, the silk along the back of each row of teeth, thus leaving a fringe of silk hooked on the pins or teeth.

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  • The frame is capable of being raised into contact with travelling combs, affixed to an endless belt placed round two metal rollers about 6 ft.

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  • A faller or gill drawing machine consists of a long feeding sheet which conveys silk to a pair of rollers (back rollers).

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  • These rollers present the silk to a set of fallers (steel bars into which are fixed fine steel pins), which carry forward the silk to another pair of rollers, which draw the silk through the pins of the fallers and present it to the rollers in a continuous way, thus forming a ribbon of silk called a " sliver."

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  • Hitherto all the drawing has been by rollers and fallers, but in the next machine the drawing is done by rollers only.

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  • Two or three slubbing rovings are put up behind the machine opposite each spindle; each end is guided separately into back rollers and thence between smaller rollers, known as carrier rollers, to the front rollers.

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  • The back rollers revolve slowly, the front rollers quickly, thus drawing the rovings out into a thinner size or count.

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  • The oil exported from Calcutta to Europe is prepared by shelling and crushing the seeds between rollers.

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  • It is utilized in the spindles of machinetools, in the balls and rollers for high-speed bearings, slides, pivots and such like.

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  • These furnaces possess a large cylindrical shell (e), lined with fire-bricks, and made to revolve round its horizontal axis by means of a toothed wheel fixed on its exterior; (if) are tire-seats holding tires (gg), which work in friction rollers (h).

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  • The end friction of the polar axis is relieved by a ring of conical rollers shown in section beside the principal figure.

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  • After the stalks have been removed either by hand or by a simple apparatus the juice is expressed either - as is still the case in many quarters - by trampling under foot or by means of a simple lever or screw press or by rollers.

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  • A still further improvement, due to Mr Pownall, comes into operation at this point, which consists of immediately passing the stalks as they are taken out of the vats between heavy rollers over which a stream of pure water is kept flowing.

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  • The breaking is done by passing the stalks between grooved or fluted rollers of different pitches; these rollers, of which there may be from 5 to 7 pairs, are sometimes arranged to work alternately forwards and backwards in order to thoroughly break the woody material or " boon " of the straw, while the broken " shoves " are beaten out by suspending the fibre in a machine fitted with a series of revolving blades, which, striking violently against the flax, shake out the bruised and broken woody cores.

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  • His proposals were to print from type placed either on a flat bed or a cylinder, and the impression was to be given by another cylinder covered with some suitable material, the paper being fed in between the type and the impression cylinder, and the ink applied by rollers covered with cloth or leather, or both.

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  • Around this large type cylinder were eight smaller ones, all upright, for taking the impression for each of the eight sheets fed in separately, and rollers were so arranged as to apply the ink to the type as it passed alternately from one impression cylinder to the other.

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  • The type bed travels with a reciprocating motion upon rollers or runners made of steel, the bed being driven by a simple crank motion, starting and stopping without much noise or vibration.

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  • A second vibrating composition roller conveys the ink from this drum to the distributing table or ink slab, on which other rollers, called distributors, still further thin out the ink.

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  • As the type bed travels, larger composition rollers, called inkers, placed near the cylinder, adjusted to the requisite pressure on the type, pick up the necessary amount of ink for each impression and convey it to the type as it passes under them.

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  • Usually three or four such rollers are required to ink the forme.

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  • Close to the large cylinders are the inking rollers, which take the necessary amount of ink, each set from its own slab as it passes under, and these rollers convey the requisite ink to the printing surface as the forme-carriage runs under its own cylinder.

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  • The sheet is laid to a back mark on the tapes, and is propelled between two rollers s FIG.

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  • Henry Wilde, in 1875, in depositing copper on iron printing-rollers, recognized this principle and rotated the rollers during electrolysis, thereby renewing the surfaces of metal and liquid in mutual contact, and imparting sufficient motion to the solution to prevent stratification; as an alternative he imparted motion to the electrolyte by means of propeller blades.

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  • The essential parts of one type of bale opener are three specially shaped rollers, the peri pheries of which contain a number of 1 Also in the forms "streek," "strick" or "strike," as in Chaucer, Cant.

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  • The fibre passes between a series of fluted rollers, each pair of which is kept in contact by spiral springs as shown in the figure.

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  • The springs allow the top rollers of each pair to rise as the material passes through the machine.

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  • Advantage is taken of this slight upward and downward movement of the top rollers to automatically regulate the flow of water and oil upon the material.

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  • The apparatus for this function is placed immediately over the II th and 12th rollers of the softening machine and an idea of its construction may be gathered from fig.

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  • Two of these rollers are supported in the same horizontal plane of the framework, while the third or top roller is kept in close contact by means of weights and springs acting on each end of the arbor.

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  • The layers from the different bales are laid upon the feed cloth which carries them up to the rollers, between which the layers are crushed and partly separated.

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  • The proximity of the weighted roller or rollers to the fixed ones depends upon the large cylinder.

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  • The pins in the two rollers oppose each other, those of the workers being "back-set," and this arrangement, combined with the relative angle of the pins, and the difference in the surface speeds of the two rollers, results in part of the fibre being broken and carried round by the worker towards the stripper.

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  • After passing the last pair of workers and strippers the fibre is carried forward towards the doffing roller, the pins of which are back-set, and the fibre is removed from the cylinder by the doffer, from which it passes between the drawing and pressing rollers into the conductor, and finally between the delivery and pressing rollers into the sliver can.

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  • It may be mentioned that more or less breaking takes place between each pair of rollers, the pins of which are opposed, and that combing and drawing out obtains between those rollers with pins pointing in the same direction.

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  • In the latter method from eight to fifteen cans are placed behind the feed rollers, and all the slivers from these cans are united before they emerge from the machine.

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  • The main difference between a breaker card and a finisher card is that the latter is fitted with finer pins, that it contains two doffing rollers, and that it usually possesses a greater number of pairs of workers and strippers - a full circular finisher card having four sets.

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  • Several kinds of swifts and nightjars are found, and gorgeously-coloured trogons, bee-eaters, rollers, and beautiful kingfishers and barbets are common.

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  • In later installations, under the 1895 patent, the anodes are placed horizontally on a porous tray resting within the solution above an endless silver band revolving, also horizontally, over rollers placed near the ends of a long shallow tank.

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  • The lee side of the island is subject to the visitation of "rollers," which break on the shore with very great violence.

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  • There is a large variety of perching birds, including several species of brilliant plumage - sun-birds, kingfishers, rollers and flycatchers, &c.; kites, hawks and owls are numerous, and the lakes and marshes abound with water-fowl and herons, ibises, &c.

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  • In 1843 a German bee-keeper, Krechner by name, conceived the idea of first dipping fine linen into molten wax, then pressing the sheets so made between rollers, and thus forming a waxen midrib on which the bees would build their combs.

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  • Root, of Medina, Ohio, who suggested the substitution of embossed rollers in lieu of flat plates, in order to increase the output of foundation and lessen its cost to the bee-keeper.

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  • The prepared sheets were then passed through the rollers, and after being cut out and trimmed were ready for use.

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  • Weed, a skilful American machinist, who, after some years of strenuous effort, succeeded in devising and perfecting special rollers and dies, by the use of which foundation was produced with a midrib so thin as to compare favourably with natural comb built by the bees.

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  • By this process " dipping " is abolished, and in its latest form sheets of wax of any length are produced, passed between engraved rollers 6 in.

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  • The seeds and nuts are then decorticated (where required), the shells removed, and the kernels ("meats") converted into a pulpy mass or meal (in older establishments by crushing and grinding between stones in edge-runners) on passing through a hopper over rollers consisting of five chilled iron or steel cylinders mounted vertically like the bowls of a calendar.

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  • These rollers are finely grooved so that the seed is cut up whilst passing in succession between the first and second rollers in the series, then between the second and the third, and so on to the last, when the grains are sufficiently bruised, crushed and ground.

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  • The distance between the rollers can be easily regulated so that the seed leaving the bottom roller has the desired fineness.

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  • Dinas clay is found at various places in the Vale of Neath in South Wales, in the form of a loose disintegrated sandstone, which is crushed between rollers, mixed with about i% of lime, and moulded into bricks that are fired in kilns at a very high temperature.

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  • The ore in fine powder is fed in at the top, through a hopper, in a regular thin stream, by a pair of rollers, and in falling lodges on the flats of the bars, forming a talus upon each of the height corresponding to the angle of rest of the material, which is, however, at short intervals removed to lower levels by the arrival of fresh ore from above.

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  • The hearth may either rotate on an inclined axis, so that the path of its surface is oblique to that of the flame, or the working part may be a hollow cylinder, between the fireplace and flue, with its axis horizontal or nearly so, whose inner surface represents the working bed, mounted upon friction rollers, and receiving motion from a special steam-engine by means of a central belt of spur gearing.

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  • A chassis dynamometer is used to measure the power transferred by the drive wheels onto the dynamometer's rollers.

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  • Scotland East 29 years - employe He was trapped in the rollers of a potato harvester whilst he trying to clear a blockage.

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  • The journey from here to Georgetown produced more excellent birds, and good counts of Abyssinian rollers were made.

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  • Well, for those after surf, waves and fantastic Atlantic rollers you won't be disappointed.

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  • The rear keel rollers are mounted directly onto the trailer's rear cross member.

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  • The paper is conditioned using heated rollers to create the correct moisture content.

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  • Leather ropes strapped around huge boulders were used to haul the stones onto wooden rollers on which they could be dragged to their destination.

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  • It is the earlier type which has bronze bushes rather than needle rollers.

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  • Drying is most commonly carried out using a system of sponge rollers.

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  • Copy the tape immediately, cleaning heads, capstan and pinch rollers of the tape machine after each copy.

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  • Rollers are made to adhere to their metal spindles by the intervention of a layer of ebonite, and after vulcanization they are turned.

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  • The bending action on the bottom boom in passing over the rollers is also severe.

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  • The motmots form the sub-family Momotinae, which with the Todinae (see ToDY) form the family Momotidae of Coraciiform birds, the nearest allies being rollers (q.v.) and kingfishers (q.v.).

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  • To support this new allegation, Arkwright's opponents brought forward, for the first time, Thomas Highs, or Hayes, a reed-maker at Bolton, who stated that he had invented a machine for spinning by rollers previously to 1768, and that he had employed the watchmaker Kay to make a model of that machine.

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  • The journey from here to Georgetown produced more excellent birds, and good counts of Abyssinian Rollers were made.

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  • Well, for those after surf, waves and fantastic Atlantic rollers you wo n't be disappointed.

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  • The rear keel rollers are mounted directly onto the trailer 's rear cross member.

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  • Includes mobile cranes, works trucks, road rollers and showmen 's vehicles.

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  • It is a fact that the clutch basket slops around on its little silver rollers during the assembly process.

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  • The blades break up scrap and the coarse feed is crushed by toothed rollers.

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  • These include ultrasonic cleaning, buffer roller cleaners and particle transfer rollers.

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  • Deep hollows and undulations in the ground will often leave ordinary rollers hanging in mid air, achieving nothing.

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  • If you purchase a crib with rollers, look for those that have casters that lock to prevent the crib from moving across the floor.

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  • If your file cabinet will be used a lot, go with a suspension made of high grade steel that uses ball bearing rollers.

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  • Always check if the rollers and paper rolls are of a standard size that will fit most models of printing calculators or of a specific size that is restricted to one particular model or company.

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  • Instead of laying a sheet flat, you feed the document through rollers, which scans the copy into the computer.

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  • This chair is typically upholstered in leather with a swivel seat and four-star base with rollers.

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  • Be sure to have a paint tray, brushes, rollers and drop cloths on hand.

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  • The styles were varied and you can still get a great look if you opt for a more contemporary look of metal rings with rollers.

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  • However, you can also use traditional brushes and rollers.

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  • This is because during the process of a steel-ground flour, the friction of the steel rollers generates and retains more heat than when ground with a stone.

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  • Avoid excessive use of heated styling aids such as curling irons, hot rollers and flat irons.

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  • In the 1800s, toy boats called carpet rollers became popular.

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  • In a straw set, you use drinking straws or small perm rollers to wrap your hair in ringlets.

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  • For large curls or waves, use large rollers to roll your clean, damp, conditioned hair.

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  • When it is completely dry, you can remove the rollers and brush the hair into smooth waves.

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  • For long hair care, the best way to curl hair is with hair rollers.

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  • Electric rollers, hot combs, and curling irons are hard on the hair and should be used in moderation.

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  • To get the curls you want, you put one of the several included rollers onto the wand.

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  • It may be easiest to use hot rollers as these are fast and don't require sleeping in or extra drying.

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  • For long, loose curls, use large rollers and follow the instructions for your hair type.

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  • It may help to give yourself a hot oil treatment the night before so that your hair will be silky and stand up to the heat of the rollers, which can be damaging.

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  • A set of hot rollers can bring new life to flat hair.

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  • If you're interested in this look, you'll need to make a pit stop at a beauty supply store for a set of hot rollers.

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  • If you already own them, make sure you've got a set of comfortable clips to hold the rollers in place.

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  • Hot rollers were the styling tool of choice for women for decades, and even today they hold the same importance.

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  • After drying, secure the hot rollers in place.

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  • Once you release the rollers, finger comb them lightly so as not to break up the curls.

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  • If you want the look of a cool emo hair style, put that set of hot rollers away and try a long look.

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  • Styling hair for your romantic prom gown will require hot rollers, a curling iron, and a handful or bobby pins.

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  • Forgo the curly locks, ditch your hot rollers and round brush, and opt for a straightening iron which will help you create the signature sedu hair style that represents a large portion of the emo hair community.

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  • To create a flirty beach style, work with your natural wave if you have any, or create wave with the use of hot rollers or a curling iron.

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  • A few fresh flowers and a set of hot rollers make for an effortless and breezy updo.

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  • First, you'll need to set hair in hot rollers.

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  • When rollers have cooled completely, take big, one inch chunks of your hair and twist them towards the nape of your neck, holding them secure with one free hand.

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  • Straight locked girls looking to add texture can set hair in rollers and mist texturizing spray through the rollers and wait till they cool.

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  • Remove rollers, shake out the curl, and pull hair back into a low ponytail or pin hair half up to add some height and volume to your wavy style.

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  • Why not save yourself the trouble of packing rollers and hair accessories?

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  • To style hair in a half up do, first set hair in hot rollers to add volume and lift at the roots.

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  • It can be a set of hot rollers (which may take some time, but will pump up your locks with volume and fullness like nothing else), a hairdryer and round brush or a large barrel curling iron.

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  • Get acquainted with hot rollers and large barrel curling irons.

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  • Hair dryers did not exist, so women were forced to use pin curls and rollers, spray them with hairspray, and allow them to set, often overnight.

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  • Heated methods require the use of tools such as hair dryers, hot rollers, curling irons or even flat irons, while non-heated regimens require curlers and, more importantly, enough time to allow hair to air dry.

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  • Do this until your entire head is covered with rollers.

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  • Mist light hairspray over the entire head and allow the rollers to set for at least 20 minutes.

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  • Release the rollers, finger comb the curls, and finish with an extra-hold spray.

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  • Apply a setting lotion to your hair and wrap small sections with either foam or magnetic rollers.

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  • Set hair in rollers and let the waves tumble.

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  • If you have straight and flat tresses, the long and loose look can be achieved with hot rollers and round brushes.

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  • Heat protection products are a mandate for those who use styling tools such as blow dryers, straightening irons and hot rollers.

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  • You can modify and dress up your shag by setting hair in hot rollers or opting for sleek, straightened locks.

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  • Blow dry this long shag with round brushes or set with hot rollers for best results.

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  • Whether you opt for a wavy look with the help of hot rollers or a curling iron or prefer to keep the look sleek with a flat iron, medium styles are a great compromise that always looks chic no matter your age or hair type.

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  • To get your own vintage style, you will need a set of large hot rollers or a large barreled curling iron to create the curves, and a medium set hair spray for hold and volume.

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  • Spray hair with heat protecting spray and set in hot rollers.

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  • Once cooled, remove rollers and gather hair from above the ears and secure at the back of the head with pins.

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  • If you'd rather opt for girly and romantic, set hair in rollers first.

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  • Simply set hair in hot rollers and gather on top of the head once the rollers have been cooled and removed.

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  • For loose perms, your stylist will wrap varied sections of your hair into larger rollers.

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  • A more acceptable alternative may be working with hot rollers or a curling iron to create loose, yet temporary tendrils.

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  • Rather than wrapping sectioned hair onto small rollers, large rollers are used, often in varying and natural patterns to create a soft and natural looking wave.

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  • In addition, a large rollers, or a curling iron, is sufficient to achieve the singer's soft waves.

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  • For added fullness, do an all over set with large hot rollers.

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  • After the hair is cool, remove the rollers and lightly brush, being careful not to remove the backcombing, but instead smoothing it slightly.

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  • If you need to add some extra bounce to a blunt cut, rely on a perm or hot rollers to pump up the volume.

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  • It holds three plastic rollers that allow the glass turntable to spin inside the microwave.

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  • The plastic rollers can become stuck or break entirely with continual use.

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  • If you purchase the Lefse griddle from Lefse Time you have the option of switching out the types of plating and rollers and even selecting not to opt for certain tools.

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  • The three piece luggage set includes small, medium, and large suitcases each with pull bar handles and rollers.

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  • Borrow large rollers and buy discounted paint and you can now paint your own room, often for less than $50.

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  • Feeder rollers in printers produce variations when paper is pulled through the machine.

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  • Set up is the time it takes to burn the plates, adjust the paper rollers and feeders, and create an ink color that matches the design.

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  • Set up time is the time it takes for a printer to "burn" a metal plate from typeset originals provided by a customer or in-house typesetter, and adjust his press so that the paper accurately feeds through press rollers.

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  • Once this is done, a standard ink color is applied to the feed rollers and ink is stamped into paper and stacked in a tray.

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  • This loom has a bent wire frame with wooden rollers.

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  • Buy a separate pasta maker, rollers, knives, and cookie cutters for crafting, or you risk contaminating your family's food with plastic chemicals.

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  • Foam roller flexibility exercise, otherwise known as myofascial self-release, requires the use of Styrofoam rollers.

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  • Foam Rollers combine the benefits of flexibility exercise and massage.

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  • During refinement, the blended chocolate goes through heavy rollers to blend and smooth the texture.

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  • Set your hair in pin curls, or use rollers to get the soft waves of 1950s beauties.

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  • In revolving cranes ease of slewing can be greatly increased by the use of a live ring of conical rollers.

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  • The bromide paper is automatically passed through a developing bath, a fixing bath, and drying rollers.

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  • Cuckoos are abundant, some of them of lovely plumage, also rollers, kingfishers and hornbills.

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  • The juice is extracted from canes by squeezing them between rollers.

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  • The slides are kept firmly down to their bearings by the rollers r, r, r, r, attached to axes which are, in the middle, very strong springs.

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  • The arrangements for this purpose vary, of course, with the amount of work to be done with one fixing of the machinery; where it is likely to be used for a considerable time, the drum and brake are solidly constructed, and the ropes of steel or iron wire carefully guided over friction rollers, placed at intervals between the rails to prevent them from chafing and wearing out on the ground.

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  • Anthracite coal in Pennsylvania is subjected to breaking between toothed rollers and an elaborate system of screening, before it is fit for sale.

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  • The draw-bar is connected to the buckle, which is carried on rollers, the ends of the spring resting J on plates fixed to the under-frame.

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  • The chains pass over lofty piers on which they usually rest on saddles carried by rollers, and are led down on either side to anchorages in rock chambers.

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  • Some suspension bridges have broken down in consequence of the oscillations produced by bodies of men marching in step. In 1850 a suspension bridge cable was carried on a separate saddle on rollers on each pier.

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  • There are wrought iron saddles and steel rollers on the piers.

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  • For spans over 75 ft., expansion due to change of temperature is provided for by carrying one end of each chain girder on rollers placed between the bearing-plate on the girder and the bed-plate on the pier or abutment.

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  • It will be seen that the girder directly rests on a cylindrical pin or rocker so placed as to distribute the load uniformly to all the rollers.

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  • The pressure on the rollers is limited to about p= 600 d in lb per in.

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  • The arch rests on rollers and is narrowest at the crown.

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  • A circular revolving platform rests on the pivot and rollers.

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  • The axis has eight bearings, consisting of rings of live rollers 4 i 7 zin.

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  • In some cases hauling tackle is used, in others power is applied by levers and ratchets to the rollers on which the girders travel.

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  • This was passed again and again between gradually approximated rollers, with occasional annealing, until the desired thickness had been attained.

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  • The barrage at the head of the Nile delta, and the regulating sluices across the Nile at Assiut and Esna in Upper Egypt below Assuan, are examples of draw-door weirs, with their numerous openings closed by sluice-gates sliding on free rollers, which control the discharge of water from the river for irrigation.

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  • Wellman's tilting furnace rolls on a fixed rack instead of on rollers.

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  • The rolling mill in its simplest form is a pair of cylindrical rollers,.

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  • The machines to be driven are airfans, rollers, roll-breakers, sifters, cutters and packers, and there are besides numerous types of driers or desiccators.

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  • The genera Brachypteracias and Atelornis present fewer structural differences from the rollers, and perhaps may be rightly placed with them; but the species of the latter have long tarsi, and are believed to be of terrestrial habit, which rollers generally certainly are not.

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  • The apparatus consisted of two small boards, with glass rollers between them, the whole fastened together by indiarubber bands in such a manner that the upper board could slide under lateral pressure to a limited extent over the lower one.

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  • The cylinders are made of steel plate, lined with refractory bricks, are carried on rollers at a slight angle with the horizontal, and are rotated by power.

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  • In time it became a common practice to cover them with a thin sheathing or plating of iron, in order to add to their life; this expedient caused more wear on the wooden rollers of the wagons, and, apparently towards the middle of the 18th century, led to the introduction of iron wheels, the use of which is recorded on a wooden railway near Bath in 1734.

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  • He had, however, the courage to act up to his own professions in collocating the rollers (Coracias) with the beeeaters (Merops), and had the sagacity to surmise that Menura was not a Gallinaceous bird.

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  • It consists essentially of two rollers either both of wood, or one of wood and one of iron, geared to revolve in contact in opposite directions; the seed cotton is fed to the rollers, the lint is drawn through, and the seed being unable to pass between the rollers is rejected.

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  • The coagulated rubber separated from the watery fluid is cut up into small pieces and passed through the grooved rollers of the washing machine, from which it issues in sheets, long crinkled ribbons or " crepe," which are then dried in hot air chambers or in a vacuum dryer, by which means the water is dissipated at a lower temperature.

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  • Most of the rubber now manufactured is not combined with sulphur when in the form of sheets, but is mechanically incorporated with about one-tenth of its weight of that substance by means of the mixing rollers - any required pigment or other matter, such as whiting or barium sulphate, being added.

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  • In the Paris Exhibition of 1900 a cane-crushing mill was shown with three rollers 32 in.

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  • The motion communicated to rollers by the pencil serves to cut resistance in or out of the two line circuits which are connected to the rollers, and thus two independent variable line currents are obtained.

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  • The softened slices are now repeatedly passed between grooved rollers, known FIG.

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