Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 483
great vertical guide-pole C C, on which the driving apparatus slides, is securely bolted t<one side of the platform, the boiler being situated towards the opposite side, to counterbalance tinweight of the former, and to afford an abutment for the diagonal timber supports D D, firmly bound trboth… … the upright. This latter i- surmounted by a cast iron socket-frame, supporting the brackets EE, whichcarry a chain-pulley, over which works the great chain cc, < ne end of which is passed round a barrelworked by a small steam-engine, as will be hereafter described, while the other end i I to,…
Mechanical engineering
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