Elementary lessons in steam machinery and the marine steam engine, with a short description of the construction of a battleship (1893)
Langmaid, Joseph, Gaisford, H · London, New York : Macmillan · leaf 150
es a,plunger, the valves,and the suction and delivery pipes. The barrel (or cylinder) isbored out smoothly, and in it works the piston (or plunger)which is packed round its circumference to make it work fairlytight against the barrel. The valves are discs of metal, india-rubber, leather, etc.,… … Piston Ascending. Piston Descending. Fig. 64.—Ordinary Lift Pump (outline). 130 LESSON XII PUMPS L31 as shown in Fig. 61, and the conic/ valve, as shown in Fig. 62 ;both these valves are described on p. 123. An outline sketch of an ordinary lift pump is given in Fig.64 The action of the pump is as…
Steam-engines · Marine engines
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