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 749
parts of which adhere strongly together. Mr. Watt found that the cementis improved by adding some fine sand from the grindstone trough. A very economical joint for the retort mouth-piece is made of five parts of fine clay, and one part olthe mixture just described. The face of the retort… … The lid is jointed on to the face of the mouth-piece, with luting made of the spent lime from thedry purifiers, mixed with a little fire-clay, and tightened into its place by a strong, square-threadedscrew, and cross-bar of wrought-iron, the ends of the cross-bar being passed through projecting…
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