Brace

“ BRACE. The braces are ropes belonging to all the yards of a ship; two to each yard, rove through blocks that are stropped to the yards, or fastened to pendants, seized to the yard-arms. Their use is either to square or traverse the yards horizontally; hence, to brace the yard, is to bring it to either side by means of the braces. In ship-building, braces are plates of iron, copper, or mixed metal, which are used to bind efficiently a weakness in a vessel; as also to receive the pintles by which the rudder is hung. ”

“ The Natural Body Brace overcomes WEAKNESS and ORGANIC ailments of men and women. Develops erect, graceful figure. Brings restful relief, comfort, health, strength and ability to do things. IT HAS HELPED NEARLY 200,000. ”

“ To distribute the stress on the foot of the different parts of the frame, an inclined brace is usually set farther from the shaft than the parallelogram of forces locates it, and so placed that about two-thirds of the strain due to the pull of the rope comes on the brace and one-third on the upright parts of the frame. ”

“ If we wish to lay out a brace having a three-foot run on both post and beam, the matter is quite simple, for we can take 12 inches on the tongue and 12 inches on the blade and transfer this distance three times on a straight line and we have the extreme length of the brace from point to point, and by marking along the blade at one end of this length and along the tongue at the other end we also get the bevels. ”

“ Diagonal bracing in the frame-work of a building is never seen. Sometimes, however, the uprights in a weak frame are supported by braces running from the ground at an acute angle, and held in place by wooden pins (fig. 13) . Outside diagonal braces are sometimes met with as an ornamental feature. In the province of Ise one often sees a brace or bracket made out of an unhewn piece of timber, generally the proximal portion of some big branch. This is fastened to an upright, and appears to be a brace to hold up the end of a horizontal beam that projects beyond the eaves. ”

“ A housed brace joint is a joint in which the brace is housed into the rectangular members except that the outer end of the mortise is cut at right angles and the inner end diagonally to receive the brace which is cut to correspond. ”

“ Fig. 75 shows the brace in position, the dotted lines show where the square was placed on the pattern. It is well to thoroughly understand the method of obtaining the lengths and bevels of irregular braces. A little study will soon enable any person to make all kinds of braces. ”

“ Brace's paw reached down and jerked him into the portal by the front of his tunic. They stood there as the portal closed, face to face, Brace's eyes burning into the livid terror of the other man.
"You aren't going to talk to anybody," Brace muttered, throwing him into the companionway.
"I got friends who are watching!" the little man yelped. He slithered away. "It won't do any good to kill me!"
Barrows came around the corner. He took one look at the cringing figure and disgustedly tucked the atoblast back into his tunic. Then he reached for the thin-faced man. ”

“ He was caught in a reclining posture, his back firmly supported by a solid beam. Another lay across his breast, but he had been able to shrink a little away from it so that it no longer oppressed him, though it was immovable. A brace joining it at an angle had wedged him against a pile of boards on his left, fastening the arm on that side. His legs, slightly parted and straight along the ground, were covered upward to the knees with a mass of debris which towered above his narrow horizon. His head was as rigidly fixed as in a vise; he could move his eyes, his chin—no more. ”

“ In cutting braces always allow in length from a sixteenth to an eighth of an inch more than the exact measurement calls for.
Directly under the half-inch marks on the outer edge of the back of the tongue will be noticed two figures, one above the other. These represent the run of the brace, or the length of two sides of a right-angled triangle; the 62 figures immediately to the right represent the length of the brace or the hypothenuse. For instance, the figures 36-36 59-91 show that the run on the post and beam is 36 inches, and the length of the brace is 50.91 inches. ”

“ One wooden brace and two iron braces are to be put in, as shown upon the plan hereto annexed. The wooden brace is to be of one piece, or of two pieces well bolted together, of selected lumber, free from knots and other imperfections, squared, and measuring 6 by 8 inches in 337 cross section. The iron braces are to be of 1 inch diameter, best quality wrought-iron rods. The bearing plates, four to each rod, are to be not less than 10 inches in diameter, of sufficient strength, and securely and permanently fastened to the braces. ”

“ Du. ‘brabbelen, to brawle or to brabble’ (Hexham) .
brace, to gird, encompass. ‘Bigge Bulles of Basan brace hem about’, Spenser, Shep. Kal., Sept., 124. OF. bracier, to embrace, deriv. of brace, the two arms (Ch. Rol., 1343) .
bracer, braser, a protection for the arm in archery. Ascham, Toxophilus, pp. 108, 109.
brach, a bitch-hound. Properly a kind of hunting-dog; but it came to be used with reference to a bitch in general. Webster, White Devil (Flamineo) , ed. Dyce, p. 48; Massinger, Unnat. Combat, iv. 2 (Belgarde) ; King Lear, i. 4. 125. OF. brac, hunting-dog (Didot) . ”

“ In a shoulder brace, a back support comprising a plurality of non-elastic back stays symmetrically spaced on either side of the medial line thereof flaring upwardly and separating at the top to embrace the shoul- der blades, with straps secured across the upper end of said stays to brace and hold the same in position, and straps secured to the upper corners of the back support and adapted to pass from the rear forwardly over the shoulders and thence rearwardly under the armpits and thence to the front of the waist, with a loose sliding attachment for the passing under blades the straps. ”

“ Brace motioned toward the companionway. "Do you want to search it or not?"
"Captain Brace," the S.P. man said stiffly, "it's only a routine search. We're quite convinced that a man of your standing wouldn't jeopardize his ship and, if you'll consider the incident closed, I'll be glad to see that no further trouble is given you."
The S.P. men had made a mistake by stepping in the ship of course, and Brace could make much out of it. He grinned to let them know that he'd like nothing better than to make much of it. ”

“ Deep down in her [Pg 230] chest there was the beginning of a sensation, muscles relaxing, the promise of a long breath of relief.
Her left hand—or, perhaps, her elbow; in the blinding, benumbing flash of consternation, she did not know which—touched the pile of magazines on the table that was set against the door-frame. The magazines did not fall to the floor, but the fluttering of the loose cover of the one on top made a noise.
She fled, taking with her the flashing memory of the first stirring of her father's figure and the crackle of the paper in Mrs. Brace's hand. ”

“ If the housing is constructed on the brace plan, should not the braces be straight, as in the old Bement, and the center line of strain pass through the center line of the brace? If the housing is to take the form of a curve, the section should be practically uniform, and the curve drawn by an artist. Many times housings are quite rigid enough in the direction of the travel of the table, but weak against side pressure. ”

“ The tighter the lace is drawn the more powerful will be the extending force.
Instead of attaching the extension brace to the leg piece it may be made to pass under a pulley in the interior of the knee. What actually happens is that the thigh piece drops, owing to its weight, when the limb is swung free; this throws a strain on the brace which is transmitted to the leg piece by the following mechanism. ”

“ A corset composed, essentially, of two front portions and a brace adjustably connected at its inner end to the under-arm side edge of each front portion and provided at its outer or free end with an arm-size, each brace being of sufficient length to extend from one side edge across the back from the waist to the shoulder line, in order that its attached arm-size may be entered by the arm at the opposite side of the body, whereby entire freedom is given the waist, and the front portions are normally drawn up, substantially as described. ”

“ Refer again to Van Vliet's etching of the woodworker's shop (fig. 28) , to the detail from Moxon (fig. 36) , and from Roubo (fig. 37) . All show the brace in a form familiar since the Middle Ages, a shape common to both delineators and craftsmen of the Continent and the British Isles. But, as the plane changed, so changed the brace. The standard form of this tool as it was used and produced in the United States in the 19th century can be seen in another plate from the catalogue of the Castle Hill Works at Sheffield (fig. 38) . ”

“ BRACE PENDANTS. Are lengths of rope, or now more generally chain, into which the yard-arm brace-blocks are spliced. They are [128] used in the merchant service to save rope, to give the blocks more freedom for slewing to their work, but chiefly because when the brace is let go, the falling chain will overhaul it, making it easier to haul in the other brace.
BRACE UP AND HAUL AFT! The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-sheet flowing, i.e. haul aft jib-sheet, brace up the yards which had been squared, for the purpose of heaving to. ”

“ The purpose of my invention is to provide a shoulder brace construction which shall be simple to manufacture, accurate in fit, easy to adjust to the form of the wearer, and which shall instantly conform to the position and movements of the wearer with-out binding, although non elastic webbing may be used throughout in its manufacture. ”

“ A round brace an inch in diameter has a sectional area of .7854 of an inch, and the strain that it will safely withstand is found by multiplying .7854 by 7,500, which gives 5,890 pounds as the safe working strain on a brace of one-inch round iron. ”

“ As there is a brace under each chord stick, and assuming four sticks in each chord, we divide by eight, and have, in round numbers, 6,000 lbs. per brace; and correcting for inclination, as follows, we have the numbers below.
20 : 25 :: 6000 : 10000
20 : 37 :: 6000 : 15000
20 : 49 :: 6000 : 20000
20 : 64 :: 6000 : 25000
20 : 78 :: 6000 : 30000. The last column has the several weights coming upon the different braces at their several inclinations; to resist which, the scantling might be very small, for compression, but flexure requires larger dimensions. ”

“ The mouth of a shaft. [Cornwall]
Angle brace. See under Angle.
Braceÿ (?) , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Braced (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bracing.] 1. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
2. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
And welcome war to brace her drums.
Campbell.
3. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet. ”

“ But the limb they carry is heavy, so they rapidly become overstretched and it is difficult to keep them properly adjusted.
b. The stretching is naturally diminished if the upper part of the brace is not elastic but an elastic section is inserted in its lower third, in front and behind.
c. But the patients almost always say that better command of the limb is obtained with inelastic braces. If the strap is wide on the shoulder, the pressure is well borne, and the lower attachment may be made narrower, consisting of a leather thong (Fig. 64) . ”

“ Braces and trusses are something like rafters and when the run is known, there should be no difficulty in getting the lengths and proper bevels.
In the first place it is always best to make a pattern and then mark out the timber work from the pattern. Suppose we want braces having a “four-foot run”—that is, the brace is to form a diagonal from points four feet from the post and four feet from the girt. Take a piece of stuff already prepared, six feet long, four 109 inches wide and half-inch thick, gauge it three-eighths from jointed edge. ”

“ All such we will now replace with Steel, sending them by mail prepaid on receipt of 25 cents. They are all one size and will fit any Brace which we ever made. Our Braces are for sale by nearly all Hardware Dealers. Those who do not have them in stock will furnish them if requested. Price from $1.75 to $3.25 each. Many Braces are sold for less money; but this is the only Steel Brace in market; and one of them is worth six of any other kind. Save this notice as it may not appear again.
MILLERS FALLS CO.,
74 Chambers St., New York. ”

“ Bowline serves for a Brace to that Yard, and the Cross Jack Braces are brought forward to the Main Shrouds, and the Mizon-top-sail Braces go through Blocks at the Mizon Peek. Brackets Are Pieces fayd on the Outside of the Timbers in the Head, and between the Stern and Gallery Lights, and were formerly carved. ”

“ In a sewing-machine stand, a cross brace having supports for both the band wheel and the treadle integral with said brace, and provided also with means for adjusting and taking up the wear of such band wheel and treadle. ”

“ When boring hard wood or using large bits increased pressure is necessary to operate the brace and at the same time steady the bit. This can be obtained by allowing the chest to bear upon the top knob. ”

“ But most braces, you may not be aware, slip down unpleasantly on the shoulder-blade, and so lead to an awkward habit of hitching them up by the sleeve-hole of the waistcoat at frequent intervals. Such a habit must be felt to be ungraceful. ”