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 580
round to the piston, and to each other. The packing is pressedout by a great number of short elliptical steel springs, which are placed close together round the entirecircumference of the body of the piston. The Cylinder-cover is a hollow casting, ribbed similarly to the piston. Its upper surface… … 570 ENGINE, VARIETIES OF THE STEAM. The Sttam-etusti are large and capacious castings of iron, containing the vulves and seats, and the in-let and outlet steam passages. On the upper chest is cast the throttle-valve pipe, to which is attachedthe supply steam-pipe, leading from the boilers. On the…
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