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 403
r V five; as when they are thus formed, the motion of the buckets isfound in practice to work more steady, and, consequently, the effects rendered more complete. The bucket-frame H, acting upon I as a centre, is also regulated to a proper depth of water by thepower of the engine; the bevel wheel K… … DREDGING, AND DREDGING-MACHINES. 395 The -wheels K and I are each two feet four inches diameter; the pinion m on the bottom of the shaft Iis 10 inches diameter, and the wheel n four feet two inches. On the same shaft with the bevel-wheeln is fixed a spur-pinion g, of one foot seven inches diameter,…
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