A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 296
ump, that the water it contained might prevent airfrom entering through the stuffing box or between thecupped leathers : it served also to charge the pumpthrough a small pipe or cock. A valve opening up-wards was sometimes placed just above the plug ofthe cock, and the latter left open when the… … fcrr£3 - No. 123. Plunger Pump. Chap. 4.] Invented by Moreland. 273 ing pipe is attached, whether at the bottom, near the top, or at any inter-mediate place. Small pnmps of this kind are now commonly employedto feed steam boilers and for other purposes, and are worked by leverslike the ordinary…
Pumping machinery
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