pantographic

They are usually used for lettering, using a pantographic system.

The pantographic engraver was first used to cut punches, and later to directly create matrices.

Figure B shows the pantographic legs opening.

But the machine, using a process called pantographic reproduction, reduces the original to the exact size of the medal and cuts a die automatically.

He was paid $5 per "round", as pantographic duplication yielded about 100 acceptable duplicates of a cylinder.

And finally, Figure D shows the pantographic legs folded together, making a handle that is half as long as when the knife was closed.

They could not be mass-produced and could be copied in limited numbers only by mechanical, or pantographic, means.

Pantographic knife, often incorrectly referred to as a "Paratrooper Knife"

The Leroy lettering set consisted of a stylus and a pantographic lettering form.

A pantographic knife or paratrooper knife is a folding knife whose blade is opened by a unique scissors method.

The Arts Society of Geneva highly appreciated his pantographic device, a device that was able to mechanically engrave small watch parts and dials.

Although this design predates WWII, Records of German paratroopers having genuinely issued pantographic knives have not surfaced.

Unlike the balisong knife handles that swing freely and independently, the pantographic knife uses a pantograph linkage to keep the handles aligned during opening and closing.

The first Vector head, the Vector 70, was famous for its unique pantographic counterbalance mechanism that allowed heavy broadcast cameras to be balanced without the use of interchangeable cams.

Examples of pantographic knives with patent markings D.R.G.M. (Deutsches Reich Gebrauchsmuster) indicate production in Germany during the war, but do not imply military issue.

A plug door on a bus has a pantographic hinge that moves the door panel outwards from its plug socket and then parallel to the side of the bus to clear the opening.

The pantographic knife is very strong when compared to most other folding knife designs, being joined at several points and along several planes - this increases the force required to break the blade away from the handle.

Now simple pantographic devices not only allowed easier imitation but let a designer draw one set of large letters that could then be reduced mechanically to the entire range of type sizes, and grinding machines came along to make the matrices.

The big-muscled accomplishments of the past fifty years-like sea-farming, the fantastic multiplication of horsepower, and spaceships, pantographic factories, the Sahara Sea, reflexive automation, tapping the Sun-overshadow the most radical advance, i.e., the first fumbling steps in founding a science of the human mind.

To illustrate, the wampus cat differs widely between Vance Randolph's We Always Lie to Strangers and Henry H. Tryon's Fearsome Critters, with Tryon describing a cat with pantographic forelimbs and Randolph portraying it as a supernatural aquatic panther.