Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 346
piston For convenienceof inserting the 1. is left in the upper plate of the piston, which is afterwards filled, to prevent admission to the hollow interior of the piston ion*.—The piston-rod, ascending through a packed stuffing-box, isinserted into an taller than its own diameter in tJ id I,… … L-
Mechanical engineering
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