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 901
municating with the trough A. The action of this part of the apparatus is as follows :—The sand to be used for making glass is conveyed along the floor G, of the upper room, and emptied intothe vessel A, until the vessel is at least two-thirds rilled ; the shaft D is then put in motion in the… … reaches the outlet A*, it flows over into the trough A, carrying with it such foreign matters as are solublein water, or easily mechanically mixed therewith; the water is allowed to escape from the trough bjthe pipe H, leading to a culvert underground. When the water flows off clear, the cock F is…
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