A catechism of the steam engine and its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture (1876)
Bourne, John, civil engineer. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 345
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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