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 456
2979 is an elevation and section parallel to the line V V of Fig. 2978. Fig. 2980 is a plan of the furnace, taken above the grate of the fireplace. A, fireplace shut at top by the cast-iron plate B, called the fire-plate. C, iron ring-pan, resting on theplate B, for holding the seeds, which is kept… … E, Fig. 2979, the stirrer which prevents the seeds from being burned by continued contact with thehot plate. It is attached by a turning-joint to the collar F, which turns with the shaft G, and slides upand down tipon it. H, a bevel-wheel in geer with the bevel-w-heel I, and giving motion to the…
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