A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 312
gbox, and is so arranged (by means of a cam or other contrivance connectedto the axle of the small cylinder on the outside of the case) that it can bepushed into the interior as in the figure, and at the proper time bedrawn back to afford a passage for the piston. Two openings near eachother are… … No. 134. Rotary Pump of the 16thcentury. Chap. 5.] Rotary Pumps. 289 before it, and the vacuity formed, behind is instantly filled with fresh por-tions driven up the suction pipe by the atmosphere ; and when the pistonin its course descends past B B it sweeps this water up the sameway.Bramah and…
Pumping machinery
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