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 772
G G are clamps, to keep the lid of the purifier in its place. A is the pipe leading from the wash-vessel into one partition of the hydraulic valve, which shall bedescribed immediately. B is the pipe leading to the three purifiers C D E in action, and rising into the same partition of thevalve as B.… … G is the pipe conveying this gas to the meter and gasometers ; the connection between the two last-named pipes is formed in the same way as that between the pipes A and B. It will be evident thatthe lime contained in the first purifier will be spent or saturated before the other two, and that…
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