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 471
nce A c, theposition of the centre and length of the rod «/would be found as described in Fig. 3019: keeping thepoint a to which the piston-rod is attached always in the same straight line in which it ought to move,and carefully marking the points assumed by the lower end of the strap /. The point… … Fig. 3023 is a mode of causing the piston-rod to describe a straight line by the use of the two friction-wheels W W confined betwixt the guides G G; this plan is often used in small engines, when the crankto which the connecting-rod P is attached is immediately above the cylinder. Fig. 302-t is a…
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