Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1910)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 68
tion is effected by the differential expansion and contraction of thebrass and iron tube, being 3 to 2. The setting of the valve is con-trolled by the adjusting lever, so that the water is discharged, and whensteam enters the brass tube it expands by the additional heat and closesthe valve by… … 128. BALANCED STEAMTRAP. The float B is always full ofwater and not liable to collapse. It isbalanced by the counterweight W, atthe other end of the valve lever, sothat the float B opens the valve by thedifferential flotation of the weight andfloat, when the chamber, S, fills withwater.
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