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An advertisement for a Marshalltown Trowel from 1912. The origins of Marshalltown can be traced back to the American inventor and entrepreneur Dave Lennox.While working in his machine shop in the mid-1880s in Marshalltown, Iowa, Mr. Lennox received a visit from a stonemason who asked him to make a better plastering trowel [7] while working on the construction site of the Marshall County ...
Concrete finishing trowel: is used to smooth a surface after the concrete has begun to set; it is held nearly level to the surface of the concrete, and moved with a sweeping arc across the surface. Corner trowel : used for shaping concrete around internal or external corners; the handle is located at the center of a 90° bend in the blade for ...
A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel. A power trowel is a much larger gasoline or electrically powered walk-behind device with rotating paddles used to finish concrete floors.
A WHS trowel. The WHS pointing trowel is prized amongst archaeologists in the United Kingdom who find its strength useful in digging heavy deposits. In his 1946 book Field Archaeology, Richard J. C. Atkinson (best known for excavating Stonehenge), "unequivocally" recommended the use of a trowel for archaeology; during the postwar era, WHS and a competing brand from Bowden were predominant.
Pebbledash Pebbledashing Rock dash stucco. Roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel and often pebbles or shells. [1]
A 1912 advertisement for a Marshalltown Trowel. The Marshalltown trowel is an excavation implement used by archaeologists around the globe. Manufactured by the Marshalltown Company of Marshalltown, Iowa, the trowel was first introduced in the 1890s. [1] A patent filed for its handle by the company on July 12, 1927 was granted on December 23 ...
A plasterer covering a wall, using a hawk (in his left hand, carrying some plaster) and finishing trowel (in his right hand, applying plaster to the wall). A hawk is a tool used to hold a plaster, mortar, or a similar material, so that the user can repeatedly, quickly and easily get some of that material on the tool which then applies it to a surface.
A brick laid vertically with its long narrow side exposed. [11] Sailor A brick laid vertically with the broad face of the brick exposed. [12] Rowlock A brick laid on the long narrow side with the short end of the brick exposed. [13] Shiner or rowlock stretcher A brick laid on the long narrow side with the broad face of the brick exposed. [14]