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 444
E APPLIANCES. 425 steam is used, and advantage is taken of its expansive properties by a suitable cut-off. A muchhigher duty is secured by following the modern practice of working two engines, with their cranksset at right angles, through one crank-shaft. For light loads and depths not to exceed… … are the engines, B the drum, C the friction-pinion, D the wheel, E the brake-ring, and FF thesliding boxes. It will be noted that the friction-wheel is cast with the drum and brake-ring, and isforced squarely forward to gear with the pinion, by a series of levers operating with equal forceupon both…
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