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 716
hin, which works apiston with a trunk-rod i?,over which is a crank andshaft united to the piston bya connecting-rod. The crank is a slotted one, having on the one side an eccentric to shift the slide-valve for its own cylinder, and at the other side a socket-sleeve into which the end of the long… … G86 ROCKET. steady working. The shaft 8 is prolonged and supported in another bracket at the boring-bar endof the machine, and beyond it is an eccentric which actuates a reciprocating ratchet which engages inthe ratchet-wheel Fon the boring-bar, giving it an intermitting rotary movement of one…
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