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 172
602. DRIVEN WELL.—A clamp stronglybolted to the well pipe on which the weightstrikes to drive the tube. A clamp and twosheaves are bolted at the top of the tube withropes rove through the sheave blocks and madefast to the weight for raising it. The weight ishollow, and rides loosely over the tube.… … 603. AUTOMATIC FLUSH SEWERTANK, Miller model. In this form thesiphon is inverted, holding the water seal tobalance the water head in the tank in theuptake of the siphon. The cap over thelong end of the siphon is to seal the air inthe siphon until the sewage pressure isequal to the water-balanced…
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