Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 245
s press, are enveloped inhorse-hair material, in place of woollen serge. On the opposite side to the piston of the press is a cast-iron rectangular chest P2, airtight, in whichis enclosed a similar action of plates. The steam proceeding from the generators A or A, passes bythe pipes e, e\ e2, t,… … CANDLES. 239 action of plates P3 to be employed as soon as the press ■will have ceased to work, and where they maytake away those that they have used. They can still heat these plates by boiling water in a trough,also in cast-iron. It is shown by Fig. 653 in what manner these plates can be raised…
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