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 753
A A are the retort-mouths, the lids of which are fitted with stuffing-boxes, for the reason to be pre-sently described, and permanently jointed in their places with iron cement. BB are hoppers, capable of holding from 20 to 28 pounds of coal, which, when an air-tight slide-valve C is drawn back,… … ■it -A- [j *&——— \ - ^ar1^ k \__cd L IF. ^=fl -—n m | S\ E is the furnace, projecting beyond the face of the brickwork in which the retorts are set.F F are handles for working a piston contained in the mouth-piece A. Fig. 1911 is a transverse section of one half of a bench. The retorts G, shown…
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