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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 154

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522. CHAIN PUMP.—An old device forraising water, now in use in many modifica-tions. 523. RECIPROCATING MOTION by the auto-matic action of a fall of water. A bucket with a valvein the bottom, which lifts and discharges the water bythe contact of the valve spindle with a stop at thebottom of the… … 525. SWAPE, OR NEW ENGLAND SWEEP.— A very ancient as well as modern method ofraising water from wells. The weighted endof the pole overbalances the bucket, so as todivide the labor of lifting the water. 526. PARALLEL MOTION for doublepiston pump. A, The lever handle; linksequal lengths. 144…

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