Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 241
om this press, are enveloped inhorse-hair material, in place of woollen serge. On the opposite side to the piston of the pres3 is a cast-iron rectangular chest P2, airtight, in whichis enclosed a similar action of plates. The steam proceeding from the generators A or A, passes bythe pipes e, e\ e\… … CANDLES. 239 action of plates P3 to be employed as soon as the press will have ceased to work, and where they maytake away those that they have used. They can still heat these plates by boiling water in a trough,also in cast-iron. It is shown by Fig. 653 in what manner these plates can be raised to…
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