Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 781
47 SHORT NOTES ON PROFESSIONAL SUBJECTS. The pipes when sunk can be drawn at pleasure in two or three ways. (1) The monkey is placed on the head of the pipe, and the clamp screwed on, near the top. By raising the monkey, and striking the clamp a series of blows, the pipe is started and gradually… … (2) A chain is passed once or twice round the pipe, one end passing through a ring at the other. A moveable link is then placed on the chain, and a lever or handspike inserted into the link, which tightening the chain round the pipe gradually lifts the well, the position of the chain being altered…
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