The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 275
. The patentee claims under this head of his s])ecification,the combination and arrangement of apparatus, whereby thepiston of a steam-cylinder may be made to act upon central trac-tion-rods or shafts, for the purpose of working the breaks of car-riages and causing them to act simultaneously upon… … the buffer-rods B, B, the ends of which are made of the loopedform shown, for the purpose of admitting the loop of the connect-ing-links C, C. The buffer-plates A, A, are made with holesthrough their centres, through which are passed the double-endedhooks 1), when the carriages are required to be…
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