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 777
into the movable cylinders, during the ascent of the latter by the action of the crank. Thecylinders have valves on the top, similar to those in the cast-iron chambers, which during the descendingstroke allow of the discharge of the gas into the upper part of the external cistern. From the cistern… … GAS. 775 The velocity of this machine is regulated by the use of couical strap riggers to suit as nearly aspossible the amount of gas being generated, but in order to avoid the possibility of the pressure uponthe hydraulic main becoming less than that of the surrounding atmosphere, and the gas…
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