Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 470
-whcels.avoid the wear and tear inevitable from the onlinary crank .■iiid lly-whcel system. Bya special arrangement, consisting of a chamber formed in the stulling-box, and a pipe or pipesleading from it to the suction side of the gas-cylinder, the pressure on the stuffing-box aroundthe piston-rod,… … Fig. 2.—Double-acting compressor. device dispenses with the use of water as a means of cooling the piston-rod, this being doneby a constant flow of oil through an oil-chamber built on the gland of the stuffing-box itself. A third improvement made by the inventor(John Ring, of St. Louis) of the…
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