Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1918)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., [etc., etc.] · leaf 521
hambers and forces it outthrough the discharge pipe; the sub-sequent rapid condensation of thesteam, effected by ,the peculiar con-struction of the pump, forms avacuum in the working chambers,into which atmospheric pressureforces a fresh supply of liquidthrough the suction pipe. This action is… … Fig. 237. 518 HANDBOOK OF CONSTRUCTION PLANT oscillates from its seat in the entrance to one chamber to itsseat in the entrance to the other chamber, thereby distributingthe steam. This pump will do all classes of rough service raising waterup to 75 feet elevation. It has no piston, no packing, no…
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