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 592
ssures);and thus the finishing pressure is given to the bale, or whatever may be in the press, and ismaintained for any desired length of time. This volume of steam last admitted, after being trans-ferred to the front side of the piston F, furnishes the steam required for the earlier part of the… … transferred to the front of it, as before described; the exhaust-valve U and the clack-valve 0 arealso opened at the same time, and the steam in the cylinder A is exhausted ; the pistons E and Fare then in position ready to commence the next pressing operation. The valves are all worked byone man…
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