Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Sir, bart · London Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 301
steam becoming less expansive. Pumps.—When steam is up, and the burner in full opera-tion, the water in the boiler is quickly evaporated, and therenewal of the supply is performed by pump. The pump isusually driven off the cross-head, a part of the engine whichhas a constant up-and-down motion. On… … Fig. 8.—Pump with Conical Valves car. The Turner-Miesse carries its water supply in a tankbeneath the rear part of the car. The pump, fig. 8, has a tightly fitting plunger, which ispulled up and pushed down by the engine. As it makes itsupward movement it sucks water in on the right, and thevalve,…
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