Modern American locomotive engines; their design, construction and management. A practical work for practical men (1883)
Edwards, Emory, b. 1841 · Bridgeport, Conn., Frederick Keppy · leaf 222
as been devised for keeping the piston steam-tight THE PISTON AND ITS RINGS. 211 under the high pressure employed in locomotive en-gines. The contrivance is thus described in a paperon an improved piston for steam engines: Threeseparate grooves, each y^ inch wide, ]^ inch apart, andfV inch deep,… … Fig. 68. in the piston, and are bent in rollers to the proper cur-vature, the diameter of the circle to which they arebent being about one-tenth larger than the cylinder.They are placed in the grooves in a compressed state,and along with the body of the piston are thus putinto the cylinder, care…
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