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 588
Scale.—1 inch=l foot. Fig. 1549 represents plan and section of piston both for marine and land. This may be regarded asa favorable, and at the same time, characteristic specimen of the most generally approved and widelyadopted variety of packing in which separate springs are employed. The ease with…
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