Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building or plant where tubes are manufactured.
- noun A rolling-mill for rolling tubes, as by the Mannesmann process, which produces a tube with the fibers running in a helix so as to withstand internal pressures.
- noun A grinding- or pulverizing-mill used for pulverizing cement clinker. It consists of a revolving tube in which is placed the material to be ground, together with a quantity of pebbles. As the tube turns, the action is very similar to the grinding of pebbles on a beach.
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Examples
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Example: In Class 80, Metal-Rolling, it would not be expected to find any tube-rolling mill lower in the schedule than the tube-rolling subclasses, but a tube-mill might be found higher up in "Heating and rolling," "Drawing and rolling," etc.
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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Chert or flint constitutes grinding pebbles and tube-mill linings, and is also ground up for abrasives.
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