A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine (1876)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 242
ing made to slide over the pipesomewhat in the manner of telesconetubes. No. 94 represents this pump.The upper end of the suction pipe, beingmade of copper or brass, and its exte-rior smooth and straight, is passedthrough the bottom of a small cistern. Its orifice is closed by a valveopening… … No. 94 Jliischcnbroecks Pump. Cliap. 1 Centrifugal Pump. 229 end is coered l)y a valve also opening upward. Tlie pump rod is at-tached to the same end Ijy a fork, as represented in the figure. By mo-ving the cylinder up and down, the air within it and the pipe is soon ex-pelled, and its place…
Pumping machinery
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