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 104
fted by the steam. In many steam-hammers of modernconstruction the steam is admitted to both sides of the piston, so that the force of the steam uponthe upper side acts to increase the force of the blow, the latter being modified by regulating thepressure of the steam above the piston, and for very… … peculiarities in the design of this hammer consist in making the hammer one long bar of wrought-iron, having the piston welded to and forming part thereof, and guiding this bar by the top andbottom cylinder-heads only, thus doing away with the usual side-guides in the hammer-frame, andleaving the…
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