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 281
supported it falls back into the boiler.Should any priming occur round the sides of the steam-pipe itself, the water is, in a somewhat analogousway, diverted by the bell-shaped mouth of the pipe, and returned into the boiler. The steam-receiveris surrounded by a polished brass dome, which, besides… … The steam-pipe J is made of copper, and that part of it which is inclosed within the boiler is 5|inches internal diameter. It enters an orifice accurately bored and fitted to receive it, in the cast-ironregulator-valve chest K, which is bolted steam-tight to the exterior of the front tube-plate of…
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