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 567
by. To make thesliders fit steam-tight when they are shut, they are made rather larger than the diameter of the cylin-der, and are received in grooves and made round in the inside, and the valves are ground against oneof the faces of each of these grooves, so that they will fit tight without any…
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