The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 424
riefly as follows:—The motionof the engine is communicated to the fly-wheel shaft S, whichcarries a small pinion gearing into the large wheel/; the windingbarrel c, to which the hoisting rope is attached, is locked to theshaft of the wheel/ by means of the driving friction coupling «,the latter… … The machine requires but a single person to keep up steam andattend to the breaks, and is capable of hoisting twelve hogsheadsof tobacco from the hold of a ressel and turn them out on thewharf in ten minutes, or can discharge cotton at the rate of 300bales per hour. In case the hogshead or other…
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