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 768
g resin atthe bottom/need be apprehended. Combustible gases are generated by merely melting the resin,which may possibly endanger the whole apparatus. To avoid such contingencies, the edge of I is fur-nished with a groove filled with water u u, into which the lid K dips at v v, and is consequently… … ^It. ; SI Gr and H is a plate o, with a funnel-shaped aperture in the middle, in which the conical end of the rodd is movable. If this is raised through the stuffing-box e, the retort A receives a larger flow of meltedresin ; if it is pushed down the stream diminishes, or the flow ceases entirely.…
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