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 591
NGINE, VARIETIES OF THE STEAM. means it becomes an easy matter to disengage the rod from the lever of the traverse-shaft; which 13done bj means of a small rope attached to the extremity of the rod. K is the ooudenser, 1, the exhaust-steam passage. /•, the injection passages. /, the injection cocks.… … 1529. p, the delivery valve, which is cast hollow, and has its lower edges, where it rests on the air-pump filed true, so as to fit and form a good joint. This serves a two-fold purpose, namely, as the air-pump lid and the delivery valve. Its action is simple and ingenious; for when the bucket…
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