Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 345
, comi ol ih<- piston, .ii.ldoted and the el by a lie piste in the cyfii 338 MARINE STEAM-ENGINE. The junk-ring is secured in its place by bolts and nuts; the nuts are placed in recesses providedtor them in the metal of the piston, and the bolts are screwed into tliem from the outside. The… … The piston-rod II is inserted into the piston through the eye in the centre, which is bored and tapereufrom the under side. The rod is of malleable iron, and turned, the body of it truly cylindrical, so thatit may work freely in the stuffing-box through which it ascends, and the lower end with the…
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