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 179
tinning to deliver water under these conditions. This action is probably the same as that of a siphon,which will continue to work when once charged, but cannot start unless the pipe is first filled.There being a vacuum at some point of the delivery-tube when the jet is established and the… … 2426 and 2427.—Attached to one side of this injector is an ejector or steam-siphon which drawswater, when lifted by the admission of steam, through the combining-tube, and discharges it throughthe orifice of the lifting attachment, through which also the waste-overflow takes place. This injector…
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