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 634
stuffing-box or collar of leather. A crank is applied to theend to turn it, and as one wheel revolves it necessarily turnsthe other, the direction of their motions being indicated bythe arrows. The water that enters the lower part of the caseis swept up the ends by each cog in rotation; and as it…
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