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Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in constructive and operative machinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary, commencing with a rudimentary description of the early known mechanical powers and detailing the various motions, appliances and inventions used in the mechanical arts to the present time, including a chapter on straight line movements, by Gardner D. Hiscox (1914)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 103

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335. ROTARY ENGINE, with concentric shaftand wing barrel. The two wing slides pass throughcylindrical rockers to give the slides a slight oscillat-ing motion; slides are kept extended by pins tra-versing a circular slot concentric with the shell. … 336. SMITH ROTARY ENGINE.—Four arms with cylindrical sectors are rotatedaround an axis central to a perforated cylindricalshell. The driven shaft and head discs are ec-centric to the shell. The pressure of steam be-tween the wings tends to push them apart, bywhich the differential leverage on the…

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