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 704
accumulator are placed in any convenieat position, and the water under pressureis conveyed through jointed or flexible pipes to a portable riveting machine suspended from an over-head carriage. In using this portable riveting machine, the work, resting on trestles, remains station-ary, and the… … the machine contains the reservoirof water under compression andthe reservoir of water under at-mospheric pressure only. It sup-ports a pump operated by the gear-ing shown, the large gear drivinga crank-shaft to which is attachedthe connecting-rod. The movableweights shown regulate the pres-sure of…
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