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 775
eter. Of this machine there aretwo kinds,—the station-meter, for measuring the total products of the coal at the works before it is sup-plied to the mains ; and the consumers meter, for measuring small quantities as supplied to individuals. Station-meter.—Fig. 1937 is a front elevation in section.… … The principal part of the machine consists of a hollow drum of thin sheet-iron A A, revolving uponan axis a, and divided into compartments, so arranged, that, as the gas enters, it shall in revolving suc-cessively fill all the chambers, pass through them, and be discharged measured. The part of the…
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