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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 (1914)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley Publishing · leaf 69

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126. FLOAT STEAM TRAP. One of the several types of steam traps with sealedfloats, this having a direct attachment of thefloat and valve which is designed to give asmall amount of motion to the float foroperating the valve. The valve has a cage guide and its stemis loosely socketed to the float, so… … tion is effected by the differential expansion and contraction of theorass 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…

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