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 175
sion of steamby the valve X. A hollow spindle passing through the receiving-tube into the combining-tube issecured to the rod B, and the valve X is fitted to this spindle in such a way that the latter can bemoved a slight distance (until the stop shown in the figure engages with valve X\ without… … out raising the valve X from its seat, if the rod B is not drawn out any farther, after the stop onthe hollow spindle comes in contact with the valve X. I) is the delivery-tube, 0 an overflow open-ing into space C, K the check-valve in delivery-pipe, mid I R the waste-valve. The upper end ofthe…
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