Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 101
ting ofa small cylinder bolted firmly to the framing of the machine, within which a circular nut, screwed onthe lower end of the rod F, works as a piston, a few leather washers being interposed between thelatter and the closed or upper end of the cylinder. From the above description it will be… … HAMMERS, STEAM, DIRECT-ACTING. 93 conveys the action of the lever 0 to the valve-lever R, is susceptible of rotatory as well as verticalmotion. This motion of rotation is imparted to it by means of a handle fixed to a short axis, work-ing in a bracket T bolted to the framing, and actuating a pair…
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