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 495
dby Messrs. Boulton and Watt. The extra depth of this stuffing-box is necessary to counteract the ten-dency to wear oval. This tendency has not been found to occasion much inconvenience in oscillatingengines. In engines with the ordinary parallel motion the stuffing-box has a tendency to wear… … be jammed up tight in the stuffing-box at other points of the stroke ; inequalities which clearly show
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