Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 969
ructure are very similar to those of a small blast-furnace. At IK the upper part of the cham-ber U is suddenly contracted, so as to form a neck V, or narrow passage, between the upper and lowerparts of the furnace. The charge, as it falls through this neck, leaves, necessarily, a vacant… … A A inclined direction, from the annular space x x, and each passage is encased for a certain distance witlnaa chamber G, through which cold water is kept continually circulating, flowing in from the tube P, Q, R,and escaping through the pipe S S. At the lower end of each of the rectangular…
Mechanical engineering
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