screw press

American  

noun

1. a device for applying pressure by the turning of a threaded shaft.

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Etymology

Origin of screw press

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

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screw press

Expression is the simplest and most usually adopted process; the cleaned kernels are well bruised, placed in cloth bags, and compressed in a powerful lever and screw press.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

The screw press distributes the pressure more evenly with less injury to the fruit and is more powerful.

From Apple Growing by Burritt, M. C.

This disk is fastened down with a screw press, and when the apparatus is thus arranged the eduction cock is opened, and the air pump maneuvered.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

The screw press has an ordinary square-threaded screw, and it acts in the same way as press for making cider or cheese.

From Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects by John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness

One stout screw press, to compress the fibre before it is submitted to the hydraulic press.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.