A catechism of the steam engine in its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture. With practical instructions for the manufacture and management of engines of every class (1864)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton & co. · leaf 347
a very effectual manner. To intercept the water or oilwhich the discs thus drive out by their centrifugal action, a lightpaddle box or splash board of thin sheet brass is made to coverthe upper part of each of the discs, and an oil cup with depend-ing wick is supported by the tops of these paddle… … Double Disc Crank. Messrs. Bourne & Co. each revolution, and subsides into the cup from whence it pro-ceeds to lubricate the crank pin bearing. This is the expedientcommonly employed to oil the crank pins of direct acting EXPEDIENTS OF LUBRICATION. 331 engines; but in the engine now described,…
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