The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 368
in Fig. 265. To allow for initial or ac-quired faults in alignment and for wear of the sliding surfaces of pistonand crosshead, the rod must fit but loosely where it passes through thecylinder head and the gland. Quite often bushings of brass or liningsof babbitt metal are used, as seen in Figs. 2… … Fig. 207. — Metallic Piston-rod Packing, to fit stuffing box in Fig. 200. ground joint; the casing 2 is free to move side wise, and contains thethree babbitt-metal packing rings 3, 4, 5, which are the only parts thattouch the rod. These, as pieces requiring comparatively frequent re-newal, are made…
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