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Title: The Engineer's Sketch-Book
       Of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances
              And Details Employed In The Design And Construction Of
              Machinery For Every Purpose Classified & Arranged For
              Reference For The Use Of Engineers, Mechanical Draughtsmen,
              Managers, Mechanics, Inventors, Patent Agents, And All
              Engaged In The Mechanical Arts

Author: Thomas Walker Barber

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THE
ENGINEER’S SKETCH-BOOK.

THE
Engineer’s Sketch-Book
OF
MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS,
DEVICES, APPLIANCES, CONTRIVANCES
AND DETAILS

EMPLOYED IN THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF
MACHINERY FOR EVERY PURPOSE

CLASSIFIED & ARRANGED FOR REFERENCE FOR THE USE OF ENGINEERS, MECHANICAL
DRAUGHTSMEN, MANAGERS, MECHANICS, INVENTORS, PATENT AGENTS,
AND ALL ENGAGED IN THE MECHANICAL ARTS

BY THOMAS WALTER BARBER
M. Inst. C. E.

FOURTH EDITION

2603 Illustrations, Descriptive Notes and Memoranda

London:
E. & F. N. SPON, Limited, 125 STRAND

New York:
SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 12 CORTLANDT STREET

1902

PREFACE.

Every successful engineer is a born inventor; indeed the daily work of an engineer in practice largely consists in scheming and devising from previous experience new and improved processes, methods, and details for accomplishing them, and for simplifying or cheapening old forms of machinery and the work they produce, to enable him to successfully compete with others, who are perhaps as ingenious and enterprising as himself.

In the work of designing machinery the draughtsman has to rely mainly on his memory for inspiration; and, for lack of an idea, has frequently to wade through numerous volumes to find a detail or movement to effect a particular purpose. Hence, as a rule, every man’s work runs in a groove, his productions generally having the stamp of his particular experience and training clearly marked upon them.

In the course of twenty-five years of such experience, I have found the want of such a volume as the present, and endeavoured to supply the deficiency in my own practice by private notes and sketches, gathered promiscuously, until the difficulty of selection and arrangement became so apparent that I began to classify them, as they exist in the following pages. A few weeks of unusual leisure have enabled me to complete this work and amplify it by numerous additions, and it is now presented in the hope that it will be found of equal service to others engaged in the head-splitting, exhausting work of scheming and devising machinery, than which I can conceive of no head-work more wearing and anxious, Several valuable works have already[vi] found numerous users, and there is no lack of admirable collections of memoranda, rules, and data for designing and proportioning the various constructive details of machinery; but, as far as I am aware, there is no work in existence which aims at the same purpose as is attempted in the following pages, viz. to provide side by side suggestive sketches of the various methods in use for accomplishing any particular mechanical movement or work, in a form easily referred to, and devoid of needless detail and elaboration. A sketch, properly executed, is—to a practical man—worth a folio of description; and it is to such that these pages are addressed. For the same reason it has been deemed undesirable to add to the various sketches any rules or tables relating to strengths or dimensions, which may be found in numerous well-known volumes.

Any suggestions or additions will be entertained and gratefully acknowledged.

THOMAS WALTER BARBER.

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CONTENTS.

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PART I.
SECTIONS 1-106.

(For Additions see pages 245-335.)

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Section 1.—ANCHORING.

   1. Rope pulley anchor—a car which grips by sinking its wheels in the soil; employed for ploughing tackle.

   2. Anchor plate—buried in the ground below a mass of masonry—for attaching guys, tie rods, &c. Sometimes a frame, or plate, laid on the ground and ballasted, is the method used.

   3. Screw mooring, screwed into the ground.

   4. Heavy stone sunk in the ground and having a ring attached; or a mass of concrete, similarly placed, used for guy ropes, tie rods, and foundation bolt attachments.

   5. Grapnel.

   6. Mushroom anchor.

   7. Double fluke anchor.

   8. Martin’s patent anchor, with swivelling flukes. Several other patent anchors are modifications of this.

Stakes, with or without flanges, vertical or horizontal, are sometimes employed, the flanges taking the cross strain of the ties, &c. Fencing posts, gate posts, tree stakes, and tennis poles are of this class.

Section 2.—ADJUSTING DEVICES.

For adjustment by Screws, see Section 78, and by Wedges, see Section 36, These are the commonest appliances employed. For Cams also, see Section 9. For adjusting Pedestal Brasses, see Section 46.

For adjustments by keys, cotters, &c., see Section 37. See also Nos. 251, 269, and 297.

   9. Split cone sleeves and set screw adjustment for a revolving standard, or similar detail, where there is much wear or great accuracy is required in the revolving bearing.

  10. Centre-line adjustment for lathe headstocks, &c.

  11. Variable curve adjustment; used in compass planes, instruments for drawing arcs of circles, &c.

  12. Vertical shaft footstep adjustment; employed on millstones, horizontal grinding mills, &c., to regulate the space between the grinding surfaces. See No. 261.

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  13. Side screw adjustment for injectors, jet pumps, &c.

  14. Levelling adjustment; can be used with either 3 or 4 screws: for telescope and level stands, theodolites, &c.

  15. Horizontal central adjustment for footsteps, &c.

  16. Slotted link and lock nut for adjusting angle of a lever.

  17. Disc and ring with partial angular adjustment by a screw and nut; used for screwing dies, self-centering chucks, &c. The nut and bearing of the screw have allowance for swivelling.

  18. Pin and hole adjustment for a lever or similar detail.

  19. Wedge bearing for locomotive horn plate guides, slide bars, and similar parts subject to wear.

  20. Right and left-hand screw and wedge adjustment for roller bearings, &c.

  21. Adjustment for wear used on engine crossheads to take up the wear of the working faces.

Adjustable Crane Balance Weights, Section 18.

Adjustable V-guides, Nos. 700 and 704.

Section 3.—BELT GEARING.

Materials employed are:—Leather, cotton, guttapercha, indiarubber, canvas, camel-hair, catgut, flat wire or hemp rope, steel bands, flat chains, &c.

  22. Ordinary belt pulley, “crowned” on face to retain the belt on the centre of the pulley.

  23. Double-flanged pulley, flat on face, sometimes “crowned,” as No. 22.

  24. Single-flanged pulley for horizontal driving.

  25. Open belt gear; runs best as shown, with the slack half of the belt at top.

  26. Crossed belt to reverse motion on the driven shaft. Also to obtain more grip for the belt than with open belts.

  27. Mode of driving when the shafts are at right angles to one another.

  28. Mode of driving with shafts at an obtuse angle, sometimes used instead of bevel wheels.

  29. Arrangement adopted when the pulleys cannot be got in line with one another, or the shafts are too close together to drive well direct. Short belts seldom work well.

Belts are frequently arranged to pass under and over several pulleys so as to drive several shafts by one belt.

For reversing by belt gear, see Section 74. Gut bands (round) are worked over V-grooved pulleys; see Rope Gearing, Section 66. Belts may be kept tight by tightening pulleys, see No. 1207. For round belts, see Rope Gearing, Section 66. V-belts are occasionally used, formed of thicknesses of leather riveted together, cut to a V-section, and worked over V-grooved pulleys.

Section 4.—BALL-AND-SOCKET JOINTS.

  30. Universal hinge. The arm can be fixed in any required position by tightening the gland. Useful for stands for articles to be exhibited in any position, telescopes, &c.

  31. Pipe joint, with similar capabilities.

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  32. Same as No. 16, but with screwed gland. If used without the arm, it forms the ordinary ball castor.

  33 & 34. Dr. Hooke’s universal joint. See application, No. 292. See also Nos. 1359 and 732.

Gas pendants are suspended with a joint similar to No. 31, but the ball, having only a restricted angular motion, is cut down to a segment only.

Section 5.—BRAKES AND RETARDING APPLIANCES.

To retard or arrest motion (revolving or rectilinear).

  35. Strap and lever brake. The strap is usually faced with wood or leather, but sometimes is used without either. Wood is liable to become noisy. Leather gives the best grip. Iron upon iron, or wood upon iron is not safe if liable to become oily or wet.

  36. Block and lever brake. Wood or cast-iron blocks are used.

  37. Compound block and lever brake; avoids putting cross strain on the shaft—used on winding engines, &c.

  38. Internal toggle brake, employed for friction clutches. See Section 15. The inner ring is turned to fit loosely inside the outer ring and split, the toggles being arranged as shown to expand the ring till it is locked to the outer ring.

  39 & 40. Double block and lever brake on wheel rim grips the wheel rim between the lever stocks or jaws. The strains are self-contained.

  41. Disc brake; considerable end pressure is required with this form, and must be arranged for in the bearings of the shaft.

  42. Compound disc brake. Several discs may be employed, sliding on feathers on the shaft.

  43. Fan brake; may be run openly in air, or enclosed in a drum with water, oil, or other liquid. (See Allen’s patent Governor, &c.)

  44. Spring brake, acting on a small grooved pulley; for light purposes.

  45. Rope brake or grip, with toggle motion, and screw for relieving.

  46. Rope brake: grips by the angular distance between the jaw centres becoming less as the lever end falls.

  47. Rope brake; with cam lever gripping motion.

  48. Eccentric action lever and block brake. The eccentric is fixed to the brake lever. This plan also avoids cross strain on the shaft.

  49. Strap and screw brake.

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  50, 51, & 52. Three forms of car brakes. See also the common “skid” or cart brake.

  53. Combined strap and lever brake. (Fielden’s.)

  54. Shaft grip, or brake.

  55. Centrifugal brake, or clutch. The weight segments are driven into contact with the ring by centrifugal force. Springs may be used to return them out of action.

  56. Three-segment compound brake: grips the wheel all round.

  57. Compound bar brake, with right and left hand screw grip levers, used for heavy gun compressors.

  58. Compound ring brake, on similar principle to No. 57. See remarks to No. 41.

  59. Wedge and split ring, used for internal brake ring or clutch, in a similar way to No. 38.

  60. Hollow drums, with radial pockets, half filled with loose material, or water, mercury, &c., which retard the motion of the drum by the weight and friction of the loose material.

An hydraulic cylinder and piston is frequently used as a brake or retarding device for reciprocating motion, the water passing from one side of the piston to the other, through an adjustable valve. Friction brakes are employed as dynamometers to indicate the power given off or absorbed by any piece of machinery. Automatic brakes (see Sections 15 and 69) are used for hoisting machinery, &c.

Brushes, formed of stiff bristles or wire, are used as a retarding device for circular or rectilinear motion.

Section 6.—TYPES OF BOILERS.

Vessels or containers of every conceivable shape have been used as boilers. Many of the older types are now obsolete, but the following are these most commonly used:—

VERTICAL BOILERS.

  61. Ordinary centre flue boiler. Sometimes the centre flue is surrounded with tubes, as No. 65.

  62. Vertical multitubular.

  63. Vertical boiler, with diagonal tubes and smoke boxes.

  64. Vertical return-flue.

  65. “Pot” boiler.

  66. “Field” boiler; with suspended tubes and internal circulating tubes.

  67. Vertical egg-end boiler; with spiral flue. Large vertical boilers sometimes have cross flues, or large tubes.

HORIZONTAL BOILERS.

  68. Portable “loco-type” multitubular.

  69. Fixed return-tube.

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  70. Fixed “loco-type” multitubular; a favorite and useful form, giving good results, and easily cleaned.

  71. Fixed “loco-type,” with underneath fire-box; sometimes used to economise space, is self-contained, and usually stands on cast-iron feet.

  72. Multitubular-horizontal; self contained; on cast-iron feet.

  73. Egg-end boiler; not much used except where the coal burnt per h.p. per hour is not an important consideration.

  74. “Cornish”; one flue, with enlarged fire-box tube. This type is often made with a parallel flue with cross tubes fixed at intervals throughout its length.

  75. “Lancashire”; two flues; sometimes has enlarged fire-box tubes, as No. 74.

  76. Oval flue boiler, with “Galloway” tubes. The Lancashire type is frequently combined with this form by arranging the two circular flues to open into one oval one.

  77 & 78. “Elephant” boilers; employed in connection with coke ovens and other sources of waste heat.

MARINE BOILERS.

  79. Ordinary box form, with internal fire-box and return flue.

  80. Same type, but with two fire-boxes and multitubular return tubes.

  81. Underneath fire-boxes and multitubular return tubes above the fire-boxes, sometimes duplicated, as No. 82.

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  83. Has two central fire-boxes and side return-tubes.

The foregoing box patterns are rapidly going out of use, as unsuitable for the higher pressures prevailing with compound engines.

  84. Cylindrical boiler, with three fire tubes and three sets of return tubes. This form is much used, the surfaces requiring stays being very limited. It is made with double fire-boxes as shown, or with single fire-box, as No. 81.

  85. Cylindrical single flue and return-tube.

  86. Cylindrical single flue and multitubular.

  87. Cylindrical double flue and multitubular, longitudinal section similar to No. 86.

  88. Cylindrical saddle boiler, multitubular, used for shallow vessels, launches; &c.

HOUSEHOLD BOILERS.

  89. Kitchen “ell” boiler.

  90. Kitchen or back boiler, for ordinary grates.

  91. “Saddle” boiler. The varieties of this type are legion. Every conceivable cross-bridge, water-way, tube, and flue has been added to it by various makers. See Messrs. Graham and Fleming, and other makers’ Lists.

  92. Annular cylindrical greenhouse boiler.

  93. Annular conoidal greenhouse boiler.

  94. Vertical cylindrical, closed top greenhouse boiler.

The last four are types of the greenhouse boilers most in use. They are usually of wrought iron, and all seams welded.

  95. Back boiler for ordinary register grate.

  96. “Boot” boiler.

  97. Scullery, or wash-house boiler.

  98. Scullery, or wash-house boiler, heated by steam. In public laundries these are usually rectangular in plan.

  99. Coil boiler, used for small greenhouses, &c.

 100. Sectional, or “Tubulous” boiler. Root’s, and others, are on this principle. They are constructed of simple pipes and T or L pieces, usually bolted together.

Section 7.—BLOWING AND EXHAUSTING.

Some of the mechanical blowers are too well known to need illustration here; such are the ordinary Beam Blowing Engine, as in use for blast furnaces, Vertical Blowing Engine, and Horizontal Blowing Engine. In all these a cylinder and piston form the blowing device. Nearly every form of rotary engine (see Section 75) may, by reversal, be converted into a blowing machine. See Root’s patent, No. 1307; Baker’s, 1325, and others in common use. Fans, centrifugal, (see No. 1337) are still the commonest blowing machines, and are especially suited for light pressures and large volumes of air; but for pressures of from ¹⁄₂ lb. per square inch and upwards, the rotary or cylinder types are best. The following are devices not so well known, but sometimes useful:—

 101. The “Trompe,” or water-jet blower. Water under pressure is discharged through a rose into a funnel-shaped inlet, carrying with it a quantity of air (see Section 45); the water runs off at an overflow, and the air is led away by a pipe.

 102. Steam-jet blower. (See Section 45.)

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 103. Organ bellows. The lower “feeders” pump alternately into the double-tier upper “reservoir,” which has the upper set of ribs inverted, as shown, to equalise the pressure throughout its rise. The reservoir is loaded with weights to the required pressure.

 104. Smiths’ bellows, either circular or hinged at one side.

The valves used for bellows are plain flap valves faced with leather similar to No. 1619.

 105. Bell, or gasometer blower, for light pressures and large volumes.

 106. Regulator, or reservoir, for blowing engines to steady the blast. The weighted piston serves the same purpose as an air vessel to the ordinary pump.

 107. Disc blower, with elastic diaphragm piston.

 108. One-crank three-throw blower, for organs, &c., to give a continuous blast. The three feeders deliver into the central triangular box.

Section 8.—BEDPLATES, FOUNDATIONS, AND FRAMING OF MACHINES.

The skeleton framing of a machine for any purpose should be rigid, as light as is consistent with strength and stability (in some cases weight is necessary to minimise vibration), and the ribs, or members of the frame, should be so disposed as to afford the requisite support for all bearings, centres, &c., without redundance; and lastly, symmetry, and a certain degree of elegance and proportion, are desirable. The illustrations are necessarily typical only, and suggestive.

 109. Girder section bedplate for horizontal distributed bearing, as in a horizontal engine. It may be used double, and the two parts connected by cross pieces and bolts, as No. 112.

 110. Open box bedplate.

 111. Closed box bedplate.

 112. Double box bedplate with cross tie pieces.

Square or rectangular bedplates are usually of similar sections, stiffened with ribs underneath, and generally cast in one piece.

 113. Side frame and distance rod construction, suitable for light machines.

 114. Side frames and cross bars on a base plate. This forms a more rigid construction than No. 113.

 115. Table and legs.

 116. Rectangular openwork box framing. Useful for machines with several cross shafts.

 117. Hollow standard for hammers, vertical engines, and any machine raised above the floor.

 118. Soleplate and standard for pedestal bracket, &c. Admits of being detached without disturbing the foundation.

 119. Wall box for shaft bearings, &c.

 120. Arched crosshead for double bearing, bevil gear, &c.

 121. Wrought-iron sideplate and distance rod construction.

 122. Wall bracket, with wall flange, or tongue, to take the vertical strain.

 123. Wrought-iron rectangular bedplate.

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 124. Base plate for column, &c., with concrete foundation. The bolts are usually T headed (see No. 1404), in open recesses, so as to be easily removed without disturbing the base plate.

 125. Dovetail and key fixing for brackets, bearings, or any separate detail of framing.

 126. Foundation for box bedplates.

 127. Vertical columnar, or distance rod construction, used for marine engines, vertical engines, presses, &c.

 128. Plinth, column, entablature, and cross bracing, used for beam engines and machinery of a straggling kind with many detached parts.

 129. Flat bar side framing, strong, light, and cheap, but not very rigid.

 130. Wrought-iron L and flat bar rectangular frame, suitable where great rigidity is not needed, but where cast-iron is not safe or desirable.

Wrought-iron is becoming much more largely employed for the framing of general machinery than heretofore, and it is customary in many cases to supplement a cast iron base or frame with wrought iron or steel bars.

Section 9.—CAM, TAPPET, AND WIPER GEAR.

For producing, from plain circular, or reciprocating motion, variable speed or motion, also intermittent and every kind of irregular motion. Cams are either open or covered. Nos. 131, 132, and 133 are open cams; Nos. 137 and 138, covered cams.

 131, 132, & 133. Three forms of the “heart” cam, for giving a regular or intermittent vertical motion to a lever end.

 134. Crown cam for vertical shaft.

 135 & 136. Jumping cams.

 137. Covered heart cam.

 138. Covered crown cam.

 139. Wiper and lever motion.

 140. Twisted bar with sliding bush, which travels from end to end of the bar, and being prevented from turning, causes the bar to turn on its axis to the amount of its twist.

 141. Crank pin and slotted lever; gives a variable speed with quick return.

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 142. Spiral radius bar for opening valve. The valve is lifted off its seat by the radial motion of the lever against the inclined radius bar.

 143. Crank pin and slotted lever motion, with slot arranged for irregular or intermittent motion.

 144. Eccentric and slotted arm. The pin at the top of the arm has both a vertical and horizontal motion, causing it to trace an ellipse, the pin upon which the slot runs being fixed.

 145. Wiper and lever motion, with rubbing plate; used for Cornish valves, &c.

 146. Stamp mill.

 147. Scroll cam.

 148. Crank and lever, intermittent or continuous motion.

 149. Piston, or valve rod and lever motion.

 150. Similar movement, but with anti-friction roller on end of lever.

 151. Rod and lever reciprocating motion, with anti-friction roller.

 152. Similar movement, with a socket forged in the rod and the end of lever rounded to allow for angular motion.

 153. Diagonal disc cam, or “swash plate.”

 154. Motion for belt shifting with dead travel at half stroke. This allows the lever to move a certain distance on each side of the centre without moving the belt shifting bar.

 155 & 156. Sectors and bent lever, used on Cornish engine valve gear.

 157. T lever valve motion, used in rock drills, some forms of steam engines, &c.

 158. Four-bolt camplate, used for screwing dies, locks for fireproof safes, &c.

 159. Slot, cam, and lever motion.

 160. Barrel motion for musical instruments, looms, &c., in which the barrel is provided with pins or staples to lift the respective levers.

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 161. Drum with spiral vanes of long pitch, operated by a revolving arm on a shaft at right angles to the cam shaft, used for intermittent circular motion.

 162. Volute and lever.

 163. Double screw, for converting circular into reciprocating motion; has a right and left hand screw thread, and a shuttle attached to the lever end shaped to fit the thread, and capable of swivelling to turn the angle for reversing.

 164. Eccentric ring and roller motion, for converting circular into reciprocating motion.

 165. Triangular cam. Gives three reciprocations to the sliding bar in one revolution of the cam.

 166. Fan for giving motion to several rods or arms at one time, used for organ composition pedal movement, &c.

 167. Crossed lever motion with inclined contact surfaces, the levers being at right angles to one another.

Section 10.—CRANK AND ECCENTRIC GEAR.

 168. Bent crank of round section; retains the fibre and strength of the metal.

 169. Square forged crank. The crank arm is usually forged solid and the slot cut out by machine.

 170. Built-up crank. There are other methods of building them. See Mechanical World, December 1885. See also No. 182.

 171. Single crank, usually of wrought iron, but often made with cast-iron arm.

 172. Disc crank. This form is generally adopted when cast iron is employed, and the counterbalance weight cast upon it, to balance the connecting rod, &c.

 173. Counterbalanced single or double crank.

 174 & 175. Two forms of crank pin eccentrics; sometimes used to drive the slide valve instead of the ordinary sheave and strap, as No. 183.

 176. Crank pin set in a boss formed on the driving wheel.

 177. Double rod crank.

 178, 179, & 181. Hand cranks. These should always be fitted with a loose ferrule of wood for the hand if possible, as much power is lost by the slipping of the hand to change its grip as the crank revolves.

 180. Solid three-throw crank shaft, turned out of a solid forging.

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 182. Built crank. Several modifications of this are in use for large marine shafts.

 183. Solid sheave eccentric.

 184 & 185. Split sheave eccentrics.

Large eccentrics cause great loss from friction, unless provided with friction rollers in the sheave; but are sometimes used to avoid an additional crank in shaft.

 186. Eccentric motion for multiplying travel of eccentric by leverage.

 187. Crank motion to turn an angle instead of bevil gear and shaft, the cranks being of the form of Nos. 174 or 175.

 188. Shifting or variable throw eccentric. The sheave is slotted to fit the shaft, and its throw is governed by a disc having a spiral slot and locking bolt.

 189. Another form of shifting eccentric. The sliding block is arranged to lock in any part of the slot in the sheave.

 190. Another form of shifting eccentric, in which the sheave is loose on an eccentric boss cast with the worm wheel, and is revolved by the worm, the bearings of which are fixed to the sheave.

See also Nos. 606, 712, 720, 728, 729.

See also Sections 40 and 79.

Section 11.—CHAINS AND LINKS.

For Hooks, Swivels, &c., see Section 43.

 191. Ordinary long or short link chain. It is sometimes made to exact pitch to fit a snug or sprocket wheel. See Nos. 1250 & 1251.

 192. Stud link chain.

 193. Flat chain for use on flat rim double-flanged pulley.

 194. Square link pitched chain for sprocket wheel.

 195. Stamped link pitched chain and special sprocket wheel.

 196. Ordinary pitched link chain. Links drilled to templet.

 197 & 198. Pitched chains to drive wheels with ordinary and special teeth.

 199. Another form of square link chain.

 200. Stamped link chain, for light purposes.

 201 & 202. Long link flat suspension chains.

 203. Gib and cotter attachment for long link flat suspension chains.

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 204 & 205. Drive chains. See Ewart’s patent, No. 2752-76, and others. These chains are replacing belts for many purposes, as they give a positive drive, do not stretch so much, and last longer, besides which they are easily detached at any point, and a damaged link can be readily replaced.

 206 & 207. Thrust chains, with friction rollers at each junction, used in hydraulic multiplying cylinder gear in some cases.

 208. Ewart and Dodge’s patent chain, with renewable seatings between the links.

Section 12.—CARRIAGES AND CARS.

The design and details of these must always be suited to circumstances. We only propose here to indicate the various types of under-framing and wheels in use, and to give sketch sections of bodies or cars for different purposes.

UNDER-FRAMES.

 209. Two-wheel suspension car for single rail or wire rope, used commonly on some kinds of cranes. See Section 18.

 210, 211, 212, & 213. Three-wheel cars. See also the various types of tricycles in use.

 214, 215, 216, & 217. Various forms of four-wheel under-frames, with and without swivelling bogies.

A car with four wheels arranged as No. 217, but with the leading and trailing wheels slightly raised off the ground, is used as a goods car or hand truck, and is very readily swivelled about, running, of course, actually on three wheels only.

 218. Five-wheel under-frame, with and without swivelling bogies.

 219 & 223. Plans of six-wheel cars, with swivelling gear for curves; the centre pair having end play, swivel the leading and trailing axles by means of the jointed stays.

 220. Plan of four-wheel car, with swivelling gear for curves.

 221, 222, & 224. Six-wheel cars, the latter with leading and trailing swivelling bogies.

 225. Eight-wheel double-bogie under-frame. This is the plan usually employed in long cars; each bogie is free to swivel independently, and is centrally loaded.

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 226. Ten-wheel double-bogie under frame, the centre pair to have end play or broad flat tyres.

 227. Twelve wheels and three bogies. The centre bogie must have end play, either as in Nos. 222 or 226, or with transverse rollers between the bogie and frame.

Note that in Nos. 221, 223, & 224 the centre pairs, if running on rails, must have either end play in the bearings or flat broad tyres.

 228. Open passenger car, either with transverse or longitudinal seats.

 229. Covered passenger car, with either longitudinal or transverse seats.

 230. Passenger car, with outside and central longitudinal seats.

 231. Passenger car, with upper and lower longitudinal seats.

 232. Passenger car, as No. 231, but with seats reversed.

 233. Passenger car, for one-rail railway.

 234. Passenger car, similar to No. 230, but with seats reversed.

 235. American plan of passenger car, with transverse seats and central gangway.

 236. Goods cars, low sided.

 237. Covered or box wagon.

 238. Hopper wagon for discharging below.

 239. Side discharge hopper wagon.

 240. Side tip (or end tip) three-centre wagon.

 241. Tip cart.

 242. Tip wagon.

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 243. Furniture wagon.

 244. Grafton’s patent side tip wagon.

 245. Long truck for boilers, &c.

 246. Incline car for passengers.

 247. Segmental swivelling bearings, used instead of a swivelling bogie and centrepin.

 248. Hudson’s patent tip wagons, with three centres.

 249. Hopper wagon, with central discharge.

Section 13.—CRUSHING, GRINDING, AND DISINTEGRATING.

 250. Stamp mill, generally arranged in a battery of 4 or 6, for gold and other ores.

 251. Stone-breaker, with chilled iron jaw faces and toggle or knapping motion. See Blake’s, H. R. Marsden’s, and other modifications in common use.

 252. Double edge-runners. Sometimes driven below. In some designs the rollers revolve, and in others the pan revolves and the roller shaft is stationary.

 253. Lucop’s patent centrifugal pulveriser.

 254. Carr’s patent disintegrator. In this machine, each ring of bars is driven at a high speed in opposite directions inside a casing, the material being broken by the rapidity and intensity of the blows it receives.

 255. Horizontal centrifugal roller mill. The material is crushed between the rollers and the shrouding of the pan by the centrifugal force of the rollers, which are suspended from a crosshead.

 256. Cone roller mill, with vertical spindle.

 257. Cone roller mill, with horizontal spindle and conical pan.

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 258. Enclosed cone roller mill, with horizontal spindle and spirally grooved roller and casing.

 259. Toothed sector mill.

 260. Conical edge runner and pan.

 261. Ordinary flour mill. The material is fed in the centre, passes between the stones, and falls out into the outer casing.

 262. Rattle barrel, for cleaning and burnishing articles by mutual attrition; sand or emery is sometimes used to assist the process.

 263. Ball and pan mill, for crushing ores, &c. The balls are carried round by a cross arm fixed to the central spindle.

 264. Inclined ball and pan mill.

 265. Oscillating mill.

 266. Drum and roller revolving mill.

 267. Cradle and roller mill.

 268. Cone disc mill; the cones being inclined axially to one another, the material is crushed at the lower side of the cones.

 269. Another form of stone breaker with toggle motion.

 270. Horizontal cone plate mill.

 271. Revolving stamp and pan mill for ores.

 272. Vertical cone mill.

 273. Revolving pan and ball mill.

 274. Planishing discs for accurately rounding iron bars. See the patent rolled shafting in use, manufactured by the Kirkstall Forge Co. and others.

 275. Vertical cone grinding and crushing mill. The vertical shaft has an eccentric motion at the footstep, giving a swaying rotatory motion to the grinding cone.

 276. Crushing rollers with spring bearing.

Section 14.—CENTRIFUGAL FORCE, APPLICATIONS OF.

 277. Centrifugal drill. The cross bar A is alternately pressed down and allowed to rise, the strings winding on the spindle alternately in opposite directions by the momentum of the fly-wheel.

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Section 15.—CLUTCHES.

 278. Common jaw clutch sliding on a feather key, the loose half being cast on the boss of a wheel.

 279. Two forms of jaws for ditto.

 280. Cone clutch. Screw gear should be used to operate this, as it is liable to “seize,” and there is considerable end pressure on the shaft to be allowed for.

 281. Face (friction clutch) with V grooves. See remarks to No. 280.

 282. Friction clutch with three or more segments. See also Nos. 38 and 59.

 283. Pin and hole clutch. The pin and holes can of course be made parallel to the shaft instead of radial.

 284. Cam clutch, used for dexter treadles, also for reciprocating motions driving one way and running loose the opposite way. See also Section 62, Nos. 1135, 1178, &c.

 285. Crank pin and arm driver.

 286. Pickering’s self-sustaining clutch for hoists. The box A only is keyed to the shaft, and drives the chain wheel and sleeve B by jamming it with the flange of the ratchet-wheel sleeve C by the sliding action of the toothed faces formed at D on the disc and flange of the sleeve B, these teeth being of the ratchet form.

Several other forms of this clutch are in use. Edwards’, Stevens and Major’s, and others may be consulted.

 287. Disc friction clutch, with intermediate leather discs and screw clamping appliance, only the central disc is keyed to the shaft, the others run loose. Mather and Platt’s and Addyman’s patent friction clutches are examples.

Numerous forms of friction clutches are in use, modifications chiefly of Nos. 38, 59, and 282. See also Section 5.

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Section 16.—COUPLINGS FOR SHAFTING.

 288. Ordinary flanged coupling, usually made so that the end of the shaft forms a spigot joint with the opposite half of clutch.

 289, 290, 291. Sleeve couplings. See also No. 1430 and Section 57. Butler’s patent frictional coupling, Kirkstall Forge Co., Leeds, Seller’s double-cone vice coupling, and others, are sleeve couplings.

 294. Flanged coupling, with cross feather or key. This plan gives great torsional strength, especially if the coupling flanges are forged solid with the shafts.

Section 17.—CONNECTING RODS AND LINKS.

 295. Turned and finished link without any adjustments; ends may be solid, or forked as No. 297.

 296. Flat link of similar description, with raised bosses for facing and wear.

 297. Adjustable link, with right and left hand screw coupling. Lock nuts may be added to prevent the coupling working back.

 298. Strap link, fitted with brasses, gibs and cotters, and distance bar. In this link the wear of brasses is all taken up one way by the gib and cotter; therefore, if great accuracy in the distance apart of centres is necessary, gibs and cutters should be fitted at both sides of one pair of brasses, or No. 299 adopted.

 299. Turned link with adjustable end brasses. The forked end should be used where there is the greatest amount of wear.

 300. Wood connecting- or pump-rod with wrought-iron strap ends, fitted with brasses, gibs, and cotters. Much used on mining pumps.

The shafts or rods are sometimes of cast iron of cross or T section, but are usually of a circular or flat section and swelled in the middle, similar to No. 299. See Struts and Ties, Section 102.

 301. The most usual form of shifting link for link-reversing gear, generally got up bright all over.

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 302. Similar link, but having the point of suspension on a side pin, fixed by screws to the link, and raised from it sufficiently to allow the sliding block and pin to pass under it.

 303. Reversed curve link.

 304. Solid bar link, sometimes adopted for cheapness and simplicity, the valve rod and eccentric rods having of course forked ends.

 305. Double bar link. This is also a simple and cheap construction; the bars are plain, the rod ends single, and the block turned large enough to have a recess on each side to fit the links.

 306. Strap head connecting rod end, with square brasses, double gibs and cotter.

 307. Strap head connecting rod end, but with rounded end and set screw fastening for cotter.

 308. Similar to the last, but with screw cotter adjusting device for the brasses.

 309. Solid end rod. The brasses take out sideways.

 310. Forked end rod.

 311. Strap end for heavy rods, having cotter for tightening the strap to the V’s in the rod end. The oil cup is often forged and turned solid on the strap, as shown.

 312. Rod end with side strap. The brasses take out transversely by taking off the side strap.

 313. Solid end and double set screw fastening for cotter.

 314 & 315. Solid ends for small rods. The brasses are usually secured by a set screw.

 316. Solid end, split with screw bolt tightening device; may be hinged as shown by dotted line.

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 317. Covered solid end for crank pins, with screw adjustments for brasses.

 318. Common forked rod end, with cap.

 319. Hook bolt attachment for gudgeon; sometimes useful where there is thrust only on the gudgeon.

 320. Double connecting rod, in which the rods form also distance rods and bolts for the heads, which are in halves and fitted with brasses of the ordinary type.

 321. Marine type of rod end, having solid end, square brasses and cap.

 322. Marine head, in which the brasses are extended to form the central block in halves, the rod end being of T shape and bolted through the brasses and cap.

 323 & 324. Plain links.

There are innumerable varieties of the illustrated types of heads in use, every engineer having his own design.

Section 18.—CRANES, TYPES OF.

Our object here is to indicate or suggest general design or arrangement only, from which a selection can be made to suit requirements.

 325. Is the common type of wharf crane with fixed post, the base plate being well bolted down to a solid mass of masonry.

 326. Is also a common type of wharf crane, but with the post revolving in a footstep and base plate; this gives a better base than No. 325.

 327. Has no post, but a revolving frame and base plate with front and back friction rollers, and a centre pin.

 328. Post and jib in one piece, usually of wrought iron. A balance weight is fixed at A to balance the overhanging jib.

 329. Swing derrick crane, generally of wood. The jib turns three-fourths of a circle, and the two guys are fixed at an angle of 90° apart, and well secured by anchoring or loading, often made with very long jib for builder’s work.

 330. Wharf crane, with centre tension bolt instead of crane post. In this arrangement there is a vertical tension on the centre bolt and thrust on the foot of jib.

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 331. Warehouse wall crane.

 332. Warehouse wall crane, with high jib-head.

 333. Whip crane, chiefly used in goods sheds. The barrel is sometimes worked by an endless handrope as shown, and sometimes by a second rope and drum with a hand crank as No. 1209.

 334. Portable hand crane, with balance weight. The balance weight can be shifted in or out to balance the load.

 335. Foundry crane, sometimes with travelling carriage on the jib, as No. 336.

 336. Swing bracket crane and traveller, usually formed of flat bars on edge; used only for light loads, for smiths’ shops, &c.

 337. Wharf derrick, to turn an entire circle, similar to No. 329, but employed for heavy loads.

 338. Floating derrick.

 339. Light balance crane.

 340. Trussed jib crane, with centre tension bolt.

 341. Simple derrick and winch, with two guy ropes; for temporary purposes only, and may be easily shifted about.

 342. Sheers and winch.

 343. Tripod and winch.

 344. Sheers with screw adjustment to back leg. This design is adopted for very heavy lifts, such as loading heavy machinery, shipping masts, boilers, &c.

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 345. Four-guy derrick and winch, used for fixing columns, bases, masonry, &c.

 346. Fixed post steam crane, for wharfs, piers, jetties, harbour works, &c.

 347. Portable steam crane, very largely used on wharfs, piers, &c., and sometimes fitted with travelling gear in addition to hoisting and slewing motions.

 348. Wharf crane, with fixed engine, centre bolt, and trussed arched jib. This is a very good type, as the ground is kept clear for goods, &c., and of course all motions, hoisting, lowering, and slewing are controlled from the crane above ground by hand levers.

 349. Hydraulic wharf crane, with fixed post. The common type universally used in docks, &c., with the ordinary form of multiplying hydraulic cylinder and chain gear; the valve for controlling its movements is operated by hand levers extending up through slots in the floor; the slewing is performed by a separate cylinder and chain gear, with a distinct controlling lever. See Sections 42 and 83.

 350. Hydraulic short lift ram, centre crane, and traveller, employed chiefly to raise the ingots out of the casting pits of Bessemer steel works. The ram is of course subject to severe cross strains, and many designs provide an overhead guide or support for the ramhead.

 351. Automatic balance crane, portable or fixed; the position of the fulcrum varies with the load.

 352. Steam multiplying cylinder crane, in which the ram is forced out by steam pressure, acting either directly or by an intervening body of water.

 353. Breakwater swing crane.

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 354. Overhanging travelling crane, for use on breakwaters, &c.

 355. Overhead hydraulic travelling goliath, to span a railway; has slewing motion and a balanced jib.

 356. Single rail crane with top guide rail.

 357. Overhead traveller on gantry.

 358. Goliath.

 359. Steam overhead crane, with carriage to span a railway. Largely used on dock wharves, &c., as they give a high lift and do not encumber or encroach on valuable quay space.

 360. Hydraulic cylinder post crane; sometimes adopted instead of the type No. 349.

 361. Heavy hydraulic crane, with suspended cylinder; employed for work of the very heaviest class.

 362. Ship’s Davit.

 363. Balanced jib post crane, no tie rod. The weight must be sufficiently heavy to balance the jib and load.

 364. Hydraulic strut jib crane. The load is raised by raising the jib.

 365. Overside dock crane, for discharging from ships into barges. The overhang being very great in this design, it must be provided with a heavy frame or balance weight.

 366. Wagon tip crane, for loading vessels.

 367. Double sheave 4 to 1 purchase for crane jib. See also Section 69.

Section 19.—CONVEYING MESSAGES.

Messages can be conveyed by—

 368. Signalling dials and bevel gearing.

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Section 20.—COMPENSATING AND BALANCE WEIGHTS.

It is of the utmost importance that every revolving or reciprocating part of any machine should be as nearly as possible balanced, to obtain smooth running with the least amount of wear.

The following are types of the most important devices and their applications:—

 369. Balanced lever, having a sliding cheese or ball weight fixed with a set screw.

 370. Balanced cage of hoist. It is usual to over-balance the cage to divide the work between the up and down journeys in hand-power lifts to assist the load; but in power and hydraulic lifts the cage is under-balanced so as to descend when empty.

 371. Hydraulic balance lift, in which the dead or constant load of cage and ram are nearly balanced by a loaded piston in a supplementary cylinder; to raise the loaded cage the pressure water is admitted to the upper side of this piston. Many varieties of this type are in use; see Ellington’s, Johnson’s, Stevens and Major’s, Waygood’s, and other patent lifts.

 372. Variable volute compensating balance for revolving shutters, blinds, curtains, &c., to maintain an even balance in all positions, The weight chain is as thick as the coiling shutter on blind, so that the acting radii of the shutter and weight are always proportional.

 373. Variable compensating balance for hydraulic lift rams, to compensate for loss of immersion of the ram as it ascends (Berly’s patent). See also Stevens & Major’s patent, where bell-crank levers and weights are employed instead of loaded chains. See No. 383.

 374. Balanced fly-wheel. For balanced cranks, see Nos. 172 & 173.

 375. Increasing balance by sections, lifted at intervals as the chain rises.

 376. Balanced riveting machine. See Tweddell’s patents.

 377. Variable lever balance. For balanced cranes, see Section 18.

 378. In deep lifts, to balance the weight of chain or rope, it is made endless.

 379. Another method. The loose chain hung from cage is of the same weight per foot as the lifting chain.

 380. Balance weight on a screw arm for adjustment, employed on weighing machines.

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 381 & 382. Worthington’s compensating air cylinders, employed on direct-acting horizontal pumps, working expansively, in lieu of fly-wheel. The oscillating or vertical cylinders are air or spring pistons, absorbing power the first part of stroke and giving it out during the latter part.

 383. Variable balance weight by bent lever.

 384. Variable balance weight by double links and sliding joints.

 385. Dawson’s compensating governor. See Mechanical World, August 25th, 1888.

 386. Balanced doors, hinged vertically.

 387. Balanced sashes, or vertical sliding doors.

 388. Method of balancing a bloom in charging or withdrawing from a furnace, or any similar use.

 389. Balance for link motion.

 390. Weight to keep a cord or rope in tension.

 391. Mode of balancing two sliding doors so that they rise and fall at proportionate speeds.

Hoisting and winding engines (see Nos. 1222, 1223) are balanced by having an ascending and descending cage, and two ropes, one winding on as the other winds off the drums.

Double cage hoists similarly balance themselves. Heavy slide valves, and other reciprocating parts of steam engines, are balanced by small steam pistons. See Nos. 1651-1654.

Foot treadles, when required to always stop at a point off the dead centre, have a balance weight fixed to fly-wheel, at right angles to the dead centre.

A water tank is often used to serve as a counterpoise, or balance, and may be made variable by varying the quantity of water by a siphon or other device.

For Balanced Valves, see Section 89.

Section 21.—CIRCULAR AND RECIPROCATING MOTION.

 392. The ordinary type of piston-rod and crank motion as universally used.

 393. Watt’s substitute for the above, or “sun-and-planet” gear. Note that the crank shaft revolves twice for each double stroke or revolution of the engine. The crank being a loose link only, the planet wheel does not revolve.

 394. Epicycloidal parallel motion and crank. The pinion is one-half the diameter of the wheel on pitch line, and the connecting pin is fixed on the pitch line of pinion.

 395. Bernay’s patent crank motion; radius of crank = stroke × ·25.

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 396. Slot and crank motion. The pin usually runs in a sliding block.

 397. Segment pinion and double rack motion.

 398. Rack and pinion. The pinion is sometimes made so as to be driven on one stroke and run loose on the other, by a clutch or ratchet motion, such as Nos. 1135, 1178, or their equivalents. See Section 62.

 399. Hydraulic multiplying gear. See also Section 42.

 400. Slotted crosshead and disc crank. The pin runs in a sliding block in a groove in the covered crosshead.

 401. Stannah’s patent, works vertically; the fly-wheel centre A oscillates on the end of a link B, allowing the crank pin to run in a straight line.

 402. Screw and fly nut. May be made to produce continuous rotary motion by fitting the nut with a clutch motion similar to 1135 or 1178, so as to grip the wheel only on one stroke.

 403. Friction gear; the pinion is driven by the reciprocating rod and runs loose on the out stroke, the weighted lever with roller giving frictional grip on the in stroke.

 404. Lever and roller crank pin.

 405. Treadle motion, with cord and spring. For continuous rotary motion the pinion must be fitted as described with No. 402.

 406. Ball and socket crank motion. The crank pin is always horizontal.

 407. Segment lever, with cord and pulley.

 408. Double geared cranks, used for driving rotary blowers, &c.

 409. J. Warwick’s patent; circular motion converted into reciprocating by a diagonal sheave grooved as shown; the crank arm centre is in line with the centre of the sheave, as shown in dotted lines.

 410. Rolling sectors, with thrust motion to crank pin. Used in Outridge’s box engine with double pistons; this gives a constant rectilinear thrust to the crank pin at all points in the stroke, and no part is in tension.

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 411. Weight and multiplying pulleys, used for clock motions, driving any light machines, &c.

 412. Oscillating clutch arm and ring, silent feed motion.

 413. Slot and roller motion for crank. The crank pin has a friction roller, which runs in a covered slot in the crosshead.

 414. Trammel gear; one revolution of the wheel to two double strokes of piston.

 415. Segmental vanes (in a semicircular case), driven by a disc crank and pin, running on the upper centre, giving motion by links to two arms fixed to the two vanes, which have independent motion. Used as a pumping or blowing machine.

 416. Circular into reciprocating motion by revolving arm A carrying the two pinions, the point at end of arm B describes a vertical line four times the length of arm B, the large wheel C is fixed, and motion is given to the arm B. May be used as a piston rod and crank motion.

 417. Trammel gear; the slotted cross moves in a right line.

 418. Slot link and treadle, driving the pinion on both strokes by friction on the inside of link alternately at the upper and under sides.

 419. Chain and roller treadle motion.

 420. Reciprocating wheel and crank motion.

 421. Velocipede pattern foot treadle.

 422. Double crossheads, separated by distance rods so arranged as to allow the crank and connecting rod to work between them. See No. 681.

 423. Mangle rack and pinion reciprocating gear. The rack moves in a right line, the pinion working round it by moving up and down the slot at each end of the travel of the rack.

 424. Mode of connecting an oscillating lever by a sliding joint to any reciprocating part, such as a steam hammer head, engine crosshead, &c. See Nos. 893, 894.

 425. Suspended treadle motion.

 426. Eccentric and sliding bush motion for a double piston engine.

 427. Rocking lever motion by gearing and a tied crank pin. The upper pinion drives the crank disc on the middle centre at each revolution, of which the lever with the gearing attached oscillates from side to side as shown.

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 428. Crank pin and slotted lever for giving a variable speed to the connecting rod. See No. 1195.

 429. Side gudgeon crank motion.

 430. Bell crank and disc crank motion, the bell crank centre having horizontal as well as vertical movement.

 431. Worm wheel and screw reciprocating motion by means of a tied crank pin. Useful for slow speeds.

 432. Treadle, cord and pulley crank motion.

 433. Circular into reciprocating motion, or vice versâ.

 434. Another form of sun-and-planet gear. The ring is stationary, and the bush on which the planet wheel revolves is slotted to fit the ring; the planet wheel is fixed to the connecting rod end.

 435. Bent shaft and arm motion.

 436. Reciprocating motion by a return thread screw and lever.

See also Sections 62, 31, and 74.

Section 22.—CONCENTRATED POWER.

Multiplication of power by great reduction of speed is accomplished by the following devices, and various obvious modifications of them. Ordinary methods comprise—Gearing (see Section 84), the screw or compound screws (see Section 78), and the wedge and lever (see Section 53). By differential screws, Nos. 1379, 1380.

 437. Compound lever.

 438. Double toothed-cam and lever combination.

 439. Double lever and link motion, with increasing pressure. The strains are self-contained, and this plan is very suitable where an increasing pressure is required.

 440. Lever and toggle motion (see Section 63). Many variations are in use for stone breakers, &c. See Section 13.

Knapping toggle motion. See Nos. 269, 251.

Section 23.—CONVEYING MOTION TO MOVABLE PARTS OF MACHINERY.

Motion may be conveyed to such parts of a machine as require to be movable, or to distinct machinery which has no fixed location, by the following means:—

 441. Is an endless rope or other round section belt, kept tight in any position in the plane of the driving pulley by a weighted pulley. In this plan the machine can be moved to any position in the plane of the driving pulley, the weighted pulley taking up the slack of the belt.

 442. Flexible shaft for light driving. It admits of considerable flexure, and is useful for drilling and similar incidental driving purposes in difficult positions.

 443. Radiating arm and belt. The movable machine can be driven at any point in circumference of the circle described by the arm head.

 444. Similar plan, but driven by bevil gear instead of belt.

 445. Bevil gear and feather shaft. The movable machine having a travel in a straight line the length of the shaft as well as a radiating motion.

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 446. Screw and worm wheel gear, for the same purpose as 445.

 447. The driven wheel A has a limited travel up and down the slot, the idle wheel B being kept in gear by the link suspension.

 448. Idle wheel and slot. A common device for changing direction or speed in driving gear by connecting or disconnecting it with intermediate gearing between a fixed driving and a driven shaft.

 449. Parallel motion radiating driving device, with a limited vertical travel and a radial motion.

 450. Motion by belt is conveyed to a driven shaft having a radial motion in a vertical plane. Used for light drilling, emery wheels, &c.

 451. Steam or hydraulic radiating arm and cylinder device.

 452. Central cylinder and radiating lever motion.

 453. Jointed radiating arms, with belt gear for conveying motion from a central spindle to one having a travel covering any point within a circle of the extreme radius of the jointed arms.

See also Nos. 348, 349.

Endless rubber or wire coil belts are used to give motion to machines having some amount of freedom of movement as regards the fixed position of the driving pulley.

Section 24.—CUTTING TOOLS.

Besides the ordinary cutting tools in use in the workshop, such as the chisel, gouge, plane, saw, drawknife, scissors, shears, scythe, and others, and which do not properly belong to machine devices, there are others, some of them mere modifications of the ordinary tools that are sometimes needed in the design of machines, and are illustrated here.

Other appliances are—Shears: see the ordinary shearing machines, bookbinder’s shears, No. 462, and other modifications. In some the shears are hinged at one end, in others the movable blade moves either with equal or unequal motion at either end by cam or crank motion (see 462.)

 454. Pipe cutter, with V-edged cutting roller. Sometimes 3 cutting rollers are used. See No. 466.

 455. Cutting discs, used for paper, sheet metal, &c.

 456. Slitting discs, for cutting sheets into strips.

 457. Revolving cutter head, for moulding, tenoning, and numerous wood working uses.

 458. Hollow revolving cutter head, for rounding wood rods, broom handles, &c. See also No. 488.

 459. Reaping machine cutters. A series of scissor-shaped knives, one set fixed and the other reciprocating.

 460. Wire cutter discs, one fixed, the other attached to the hand lever, and having corresponding holes of various sizes in both discs.

 461. Chaff machine, with revolving shear blades.

 462. Guillotine shears.

 463. Milling cutters.

 464. Tubular machine cutter for wood working; easily sharpened, and can be revolved to present fresh cutting edges to the work.

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 465. Fret saw or jigger.

 466. Three-cutter tube shears, with worm gear motion.

Section 25.—CONDENSING AND COOLING APPLIANCES.

Their uses generally are to condense steam, to cool heated gases, air, or articles of food requiring a low temperature; distilling, and other purposes. For cooling purposes, compressed air machines are in most demand. The air is compressed in a cylinder, then cooled to ordinary temperature again in a surface condenser, such as No. 468, and then expanded into the cooling chamber, through a cylinder and piston, the expansion reducing its temperature usually to 10° or 20° below zero. Other cooling appliances are ammonia machines, fans, and blowers of all kinds, punkahs, or waving fans, freezing mixtures, &c.

 467. Gravity condenser. The pipe should be 34 feet high or more, in which case no air pump is required, as the condensed steam and air are discharged below. In place of the pipe an air pump and foot valve are required, and are commonly used, as it is seldom convenient to have a vertical pipe 34 feet long with a water supply at the top.

 468. Surface condenser, multitubular. The steam may be led into the tubes, and the water around them, or vice versâ.

 469. Worm, or coil condenser, chiefly used for distilling.

 470. Still condenser for essences, spirits, &c.

 471. Condensing chambers for gases, &c. Horizontal or vertical.

 472. Wimshurst’s condenser, requires no air pump. The exhaust comes down the vertical pipe, meeting the injection water from the side nozzle, causing sudden condensation and vacuum. The condensed water, &c., are blown out through the foot valves at each stroke.

 473. Another form of ejector condenser in which the steam and water form a vacuum in the nozzle, and the water, &c., are discharged through a foot valve (not shown).

 474. Tray cooler, or condenser; a series of water trays supplied from a tank above.

See Morton’s ejector condenser, which requires no air pump; Hayward’s exhaust condenser, which employs the water in suction pipe of a pumping engine to condense the steam. See Messrs. Tangye’s list. Water tube cooling coils are used for tuyeres and other hot surfaces.

Air-compressing and gas engine cylinders are water jacketed to carry off the heat of the compressed air or gas. Cooling by exposing a large surface to air is sometimes employed for exhaust steam on tram car engines &c., the apparatus consisting generally of numerous wrought-iron tubes or coils.

Section 26.—CONCENTRATING AND SEPARATING.

Sifting, riddling, and screening are treated of under Section 72. For concentrating ores many methods are in use, of which the water processes are the most important.

 475. Circular revolving concentrating table. The lightest particles are discharged over the edge, and the heaviest remain in the centre.

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 476. Separating dust from grain, &c., by a current of air driven through the stream of material as it falls from hopper to hopper. See also Nos. 1268, 1270.

 477. Ore concentrator; consists of an endless rubber belt with flanges (see No. 1082), having a slow longitudinal motion, and a rapid shaking motion, either sideways, as in the “Frue Vanner,” or endwise, as in the “Embrey” concentrator; a stream of water runs over the ore, the heavy particles settle on the belt, and the mud is washed off.

 478. Jig for separating ores by motion of a piston in water, the heavy parts settle to the bottom and the light parts are removed at the top.

Filtration through various substances—as sand, charcoal, calcined ores, &c., is employed to separate suspended matter from liquids.

Separation by subsidence in a tank, similar to No. 1571, is employed for lime, &c.

Chemical deposition and evaporation are necessary in many cases.

Section 27.—CHOPPING, SLICING, AND MINCING.

 479. Has a disc cutter with radial knives and slots; used for roots, &c.

 480. Disc cutter, with small knives wedged in separate holes, through which the cuttings escape in shreds.

 481. Revolving cutter rollers.

 482. Hand mincing compound knife.

 483. Spiral tapered revolving cutter, in a conical case, having projecting knives on its interior. The type of the common mincing machine.

 484. Two or more rectangular cutters, with vertical reciprocating motion in a revolving pan for mincing.

 485. Single roller revolving cutter machine.

 486. Revolving spiral cutters, as used in the common lawn mower, in conjunction with a fixed straight knife or shear blade.

 487. Apple slicer and corer (cutter for). The apple is passed down through the cutter and divided into sectors and central cylindrical core.

See also Section 24.

Section 28.—CHUCKS, GRIPS, AND HOLDERS.

Common devices for gripping articles comprise the ordinary vice, tongs, pincers, pliers, joiners’ handscrew, cramp bench screw, parallel vice, instantaneous grip vice, &c.

 488. Hollow chuck, with radial knives, for rounding wood rods. See also No. 458.

 489. Barber’s patent grip for shanks of drills, brace bits, &c., having square taper shanks.

 490. Collar grip and bolt, or set screw.

 491. Cone and screw lever grip, with two or more jaws; with two jaws only it serves as a small vice.

 492. Taper grip for vices.

 493. Tool box, for lathes, planing machines, &c., with central revolving tool post and set screw.

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 494. Tool box, with two tool stocks and set screws sliding in T grooves in the slide rest.

 495. Tool box, with clamping screw and plate, which can be revolved to any angle.

 496. A modification of 495, the tool being secured by set screws in the clamping plate.

 497. Rail grip for holding a crane, car, &c., down to its railway.

 498. Cam-lever rail grip for safety gear on inclines; this is usually thrown into action by a spring released by the breakage of the hauling rope.

 499. Cone centering grips for machine tools.

 500. Hinged clamp, with screw and nut.

 501. Fitter’s clamp or cramp.

 502. V grip vice for round rods and tubes. This is frequently made with multiple V’s to hold cylindrical articles such as drills, &c., and is a common device for drill chucks.

 503. Lathe carrier, for round rods, spindles, &c.

 504. Bench cramp; employed to hold down to the bench work operated upon; the bench has a series of holes bored in it to receive the vertical leg of the cramp.

 505. Grip tongs, used for draw benches, &c., the bite of the jaws increasing with the strain on the chain.

 506. Split cone expanding chuck for rods, &c.; the centre cone is split into three or four parts, and the screwed ring or collet contracts the split cone upon any cylindrical article inserted in the central aperture.

 507. Le Count’s patent expanding mandril, with cone and three sliding feathers which are fitted into dovetail grooves in the conical mandril. The travel of the feathers being limited, they are provided with steps to take various sizes of holes.

 508. Bell chuck and set screws for lathes.

 509. Three jaw grip, or stay bearing, used as a steady for long shafts or spindles.

 510. Pipe tongs, self gripping; there are several modifications in use.

 511. Paper grip, used for holding sheets of paper; released by striking a stop A at any point in the travel of the machine.

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 512. Split bar grip, or tool holder.

 513. Eye-bolt tool holder.

 514. Hand pad for holding small tools.

 515. Self-adjusting jaws for round articles.

 516. Adjustable gripping tongs for lifting heavy stones, boxes, &c. See also No. 761.

 517. Revolving tool post, or head, to carry a variety of tools, each being required in use in a certain order, as in special repetition turning work.

 518. Double screw gripping tongs.

See also No. 944, 912, 918, 917, 919, 923.

The ordinary three or four-jaw chucks, wood chucks with centre screw or fork, and numerous varieties of self-centering chucks, are well known. See tool makers’ lists.

Spindle grips, Nos. 917, 918, 919.

There are numerous forms of three and four-jaw chucks, both with universal or centering motions, and with independent jaws. See Horton’s, Cushman’s, the Sweetland, Pratt and Whitney’s, Westcott’s and others, chiefly American.

These are various combinations of the scroll (No. 1384) and screw jaws, as in the ordinary dog chuck. See also Nos. 1378 and 1381.

Section 29.—CUSHIONING.

For checking the impact of a blow, or more generally the momentum of a heavy moving part of a machine. The devices in use comprise (a) springs, see Section 80; (b) air cylinder, see No. 1480; (c) pistons driven by elastic fluids, such as steam and air, can be cushioned by imprisoning a portion of the fluid at each end of the cylinder; (d) brakes of various kinds, see Section 5.

 519. Hydraulic cushion. The descending ram, by its tapered end, closes gradually the discharge outlet for the water.

Hydraulic buffer stops are constructed on this principle.

 520. Cushioning device, at the upper end of a steam-hammer cylinder. Should the piston pass the exhaust holes, the steam above is imprisoned, and checks the piston without shock.

Section 30.—DRILLING, BORING, &c.

Besides the ordinary tools in use, as gimlets, bradawls, pin and brace bits, augers, &c., which do not need description, the following are noteworthy:—

 521. Is the ordinary V drill for metal work.

 522. Flat point, or “bottoming” drill.

 523 & 524. Countersinking drills for metal.

 525. Centre bit for wood.

 526. Twist bit for wood; clears its own borings. There is a variety with rounded cutter edges.

 527, 528, & 529. Rock drills, or “jumpers.”

 530. Earth borer, or mooring screw.

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 531. Twist drill for metal.

 532 & 533. Countersinking drills for wood.

 534. Diamond drill for rock; bores an annular hole, the core of which breaks out at intervals.

 535 to 545. Well boring tools for different kinds of strata; tools for raising broken rods, &c.

 546. Hollow boring cutter for cutting a shoulder on a central core; dowelling bit.

Section 31.—DIFFERENTIAL GEAR.

Devices to utilise the difference of velocity, or power, between two distinct moving parts.

 547. Equational box. Two drivers A, A′, equally speeded in opposite directions, will drive the bevil gear at same velocity without revolving the spur wheel C′ which is loose on the shaft; but any alteration in the relative speeds of A and A′, causes the bevil pinion to travel round, carrying the spur wheel C′ at a speed equal to half the difference of the two velocities. This gear is used on traction engines to drive the swivelling wheels round curves, where the proportionate velocities of the wheels will vary with the radius of the curve. In this application of the gear B is the driving shaft, and A and A′ the swivelling wheels.

 548. Is a modification of 547. The pinion A may be controlled in speed by any hand or automatic device, to vary the speed of the driven pinion B. The belt pulley C carries round the bevil wheel D, driving B at a speed varying with the motion given to A.

 549. Two wheels (one of which has a different number of teeth to the other) gearing into one pinion; used for counters and slow motions of all kinds.

 550. Is an application of No. 549 by internal or epicycloidal gear to pulley blocks. Moore’s patent (No. 1545) and Pickering’s patent are examples. The arm shown is not required where two internal loose wheels are used with different numbers of teeth, and one pinion as in No. 1545, but if used is fixed to the pinion so that it is prevented from revolving, but retains its circular swaying motion; in this case, one internal wheel is movable and the other fixed, the speed being equal to the difference in number of teeth of the loose wheel and pinion at each revolution of the eccentric shaft.

 551. Weston’s differential pulley block, consisting of a two-grooved pitched chain-sheave having different numbers of teeth, in combination with a return block and endless chain.

 552. Differential screws. These may be both of the same hand, or one right and one left-handed, and any fractional speed secured by proportioning the pitches.

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 553. Two-speed gear, operated by a double clutch, which throws either pair into gear as required.

 554. Stewarts’ differential gear. Two cranks, one fixed to a sleeve and the other to a centre shaft, are driven round at varying velocities by a slotted crosshead revolving with the driving shaft. The two shafts are not in the same line.

 555. Differential hydraulic accumulator. The effective area of the ram is the annular shoulder, or the difference between the areas of the top and the bottom rams.

 556. Differential governing device. The motive power drives A which winds up the large weight; the small weight tending to run down, drives the fan regulator, and the two weights are so adjusted that when the proper speed is attained, both weights are stationary; any change of speed causes them to run up or down, so actuating the regulation by the bell crank lever and rod.

 557. Varying differential regulator. The upper rod A is connected to the regulator valve or other device, and it is capable of receiving motion from either the piston, which acts against a spring, or from the rod B attached to some positive reciprocating part, so that the nett movement of A is due to the difference of motion of B and the piston C.

Differential Worm Gear, No. 1559.

Section 32.—ENGINES (TYPES OF).

The following sketches are type drawings of the most important forms of Steam Engines in use, and are intended to afford a choice of outline arrangements from which in any scheme under consideration a selection may be made as a basis, without reference to details.

VERTICAL ENGINES.

 558. Overhead cylinder engine.

 559. Overhead crank engine,

 560. Overhead crank engine, cylinder oscillating.

 561. Overhead cylinder engine, with oscillating cylinder.

 564. Overhead one-crank compound oscillating engine, cylinders at right angles and receiver between.

 565. Overhead double-crank compound oscillating engine, with receiver.

 566. Overhead crank compound tandem oscillating engine.

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 567. Vertical engine, with top guides, double connecting rods, and underneath crank shaft.

 568. Vertical trunk engine.

Note that the trunk plan is applicable to any of the preceding arrangements, and is employed where a very short engine is required.

 569. Vertical triple compound engine, single acting cylinders. The high pressure steam acts first on the under side of the small piston, is then expanded into the annular under side of large piston, and finally expanded into the upper side of large piston.

 570. Vertical compound engine, with annular cylinder. The central cylinder is the high pressure, and the annular cylinder the low pressure.

 571. Vertical annular cylinder engine, with crank below.

 572. Vertical slotted crosshead engine.

 573. Standard vertical engine; a type largely used and possessing many good points.

 574. Double cylinder engine, with T connecting rod. (Bernay’s patent.)

HORIZONTAL ENGINES.

 580. Diagonal engine. See also No. 564.

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 581. Horizontal tandem compound engine.

 582. Galloway’s oblique compound engine.

 583. Double cylinder compound engine, with receiver, cranks at right angles.

 584. Trunk bed engine.

 585. Double piston engine. The pistons are sometimes coupled to two crank pins at right angles.

Condensers (see Section 25) may be driven (a) from horizontal engines either direct by continuation of the piston rod, or (b) may be worked horizontally below by a vertical rocking beam coupled to the main crosshead, or (c) worked vertically below by a bell crank coupled to the main crosshead, or (d) by a separate small steam cylinder working independently, or (e) by a connecting rod or gearing from the crank shaft.

For Jet Condensers see Section 25.

BEAM ENGINES, &c.

 586. Ordinary pillar and overhead beam engine.

 587. Has extended beam and double cylinders, either as a compound engine or one cylinder may form a pump or blast cylinder. In some designs the high and low pressure cylinders are placed side by side and coupled to the same end of the beam by a modified parallel motion.

 588. Side lever engine.

 589. Plan of beam engine, with compound cylinders.

 590. Walking beam engine.

 591. Diagonal engine.

 592. Three or four cylinder high-speed engine, with single-acting cylinders.

 593. Vertical high-speed single-acting engine, with one or more cylinders.

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Section 33.—ENGINES AND BOILERS COMBINED (see also Boilers, Sec. 6).

VERTICAL ARRANGEMENTS.

 594. In this engine the boiler forms the standard for support of engine parts, but it is better to fix these on a vertical bed-plate bolted to the boiler, or as No. 595.

 595. Any type of vertical engine and any type of vertical boiler can be combined on this plan.

 596. Vertical boiler (any type) and horizontal engine (any type).

 597. Any type of vertical boiler, with short horizontal engine on crown.

 598. Vertical boiler, with cylinder sunk in the centre of crown.

 599. Overhead crank engine and boiler, the latter forming the base to which the engine parts are fixed.

HORIZONTAL ENGINES.

 600. Loco.-type semi-fixed horizontal engine.

 601. Loco.-type semi-fixed horizontal engine, with engine on top. When placed on wheels this type constitutes the well-known “Portable.”

 602. Horizontal semi-fixed boiler, with circular shell and engine on top. (See No. 72.)

 603. Horizontal semi-fixed boiler, with underneath fire-box. (See No. 71.)

Section 34.—ELLIPTICAL MOTION.

 604. Ellipsograph; by gearing; the bevil wheel A is fixed, the other three revolving with the whole machine on the fixed central standard, the distance A′ should equal the difference between the major and minor axes of the ellipse.

 605. Performs the same operation in a similar way; A is fixed; B is same diameter as A; and C = ¹⁄₂ diameter of A and B.

 606. Common trammel or ellipsograph.

There are other forms of apparatus for drawing ellipses merely (see Knight’s Dictionary of Mechanics). See Trammel Gear, Sec. 40.

 607 & 608. Two forms of ellipsographs or elliptical cranks.

See also No. 144.

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Section 35.—ELASTIC WHEELS.

Wheels with rubber tyres are the common form. Wheels with a loose flat tyre outside a fixed tyre and with various forms of springs inserted between the tyres. (See Springs, Section 80.)

 609. Huxley’s wheel, with spring tyre and jointed spokes.

 610. Wheel with double tyres and intermediate springs.

 611. Two plans of bent spoke, spring formation.

 612. Two plans of bent spoke, spring formation.

 613. Has an outer elastic tyre and an inner rigid ring, to which the tension or compression springs are fixed.

 614 & 615. Sections of rubber tyres.

Wheels are also made with rubber rings applied between the boss and shaft so as to allow a limited amount of elasticity between the wheel and axle.

Section 36.—EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING DEVICES.

Common expedients for these purposes are—jointed folding rods, as a carpenter’s rule; the telescope tube; net work; diagonally crossed and jointed bars; lattice work; springs (see Section 80); lazy tongs (No. 623).

 616. Telescopic ram hydraulic lift. (See also No. 1217.) Consisting of two or more rams sliding within each other.

 617. Parallel bar expanding grille, or gate.

 618. Parallel bar expanding grille, with lazy tongs motion, each alternate bar has slotted holes as shown.

 619. Modification of 618. The number of horizontal bars can be multiplied indefinitely.

 620. Venetian blind; this method is used also for movable doors or partitions, sliding horizontally.

 621. Venetian blind, but without revolving motion to the laths or slats.

 622. Perforated bar and hooked rod suspender.

 623. Lazy tongs expanding connecting rod.

 624. Four-guide expanding link device, for varying motion.

 625. Thorburn’s tube expander, operated by a central cone and ring of conical rollers.

 626. Gasometer.

 627. Timms’ expanding boring tool. Operated by a central cone and three or more diagonal feathers, sliding in dovetail grooves in the central cone.

Expanding Mandrel, No. 507.

Expanding Chucks, Nos. 489, 491, & 506.

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 628. Expanding basket, with chain corner suspenders.

 629. Expanding socket, with sliding ring grip.

 630. Expanding grating, formed of bent steel laths on edge.

 631. Bridge or flap between cars, having buffers.

 632. Expanding core barrel, in three parts, expanded by a wedge.

 633. Expanding mandril or chuck. See also Section 28.

Expansion Joint, Nos. 1076, 1077.

Expanding Pipes, No. 1079.

Section 37.—FASTENING WHEELS TO SHAFTS.

Besides the ordinary plan of shrinking them on while hot, the following are the chief devices in use:—

 634. Square shaft and single key.

 635. Square shaft and two keys at right angles; two keys should always be used for a square shaft, unless it has been machined to fit to the hole.

 636. Round shaft and hollow key.

 637. Round shaft and flat key.

 638. Round shaft and sunk key.

 639. Staked fastening, four keys, usually on flats cut on shaft, but better if slightly sunk into shaft.

 640. Set screw. Cannot be depended on for any but light strains.

 641. Taper pin.

 642. Split pin; always used where a pin, bolt, or centre is liable to work loose.

 643. Cotter and slot.

 644. Screwed pin through shaft and boss of wheel.

 645. Octagonal shaft of cast iron, with four keys, or the four keys may be cast on shaft.

 646. Cotter or pin through side of shaft.

 647. Large wheels are sometimes wedged with iron and wood wedges all round on a square or octagonal shaft having feathers cast on it.

 648. Set screw, tapped half into shaft and half into wheel.

 649. Screwed shaft, nut and clamping plates; used for emery wheels, grindstones, circular saws, and milling cutters.

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 650. Screwed end and nut, the hole in wheel being square, or round and fitted with key.

 651. Gib head taper key.

 652. Plain taper key.

 653. Taper round pin.

 654, 655. Split pins (round).

 656. Cotter and split pin.

 657. Cotter and nut.

 658. Dovetail taper key, or fixing for projection, cutter or bracket.

 659. Self-locking pin; cannot work out.

 660. Split collar and ring fastening, sometimes used instead of a nut and screwed end; the inner ring is in halves.

 661. Piston rod fastening.

 662. Locking feather and wedge fastening, for rollers, &c., prevents end motion.

 663. Railway chair key.

Section 38.—FRICTION GEAR.

Various forms of friction gearing are much used, the chief objection to this kind of gear being the excess of pressure on the bearings required to give sufficient grip to drive the gear.

 664. The common form of flat-faced friction gear for hoisting purposes, &c. See No. 1211. The required pressure is given by a weighted lever.

 665. Friction bevils, plain faces, for governor driving, &c.

 666. Friction bevils, the pinion being usually of hard leather; the pressure may be applied in the direction of either of the arrows.

 667. Multiple V gear. A common mistake is to run these too deep in gear; the narrower the surfaces in contact, short of the seizing or crushing point, the less the power wasted in friction.

 668. A very small pinion of leather, wood, or rubber is frequently driven by a large driving wheel for obtaining high speed with steadiness, for driving dynamos, fans, &c.

 669. Disc wheel and rubber pinion, arranged to reverse motion or vary speed. See No. 1595. The motion is reversed by throwing either wheel into gear with the pinion, and the speed varied at will by raising or lowering the pinion, used for screw presses.

 670. Wedge friction gear.

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 671. Coupled bearings for friction gear, to allow of any required pressure or “bite,” the strains being self-contained.

See also No. 737, 738, 1294.

Section 39.—GUIDES, SLIDES, &c.

PISTON-ROD GUIDES.

 672. Two bars and crosshead; these must be far enough apart to allow for the angle of the connecting rod.

 673. Four bars, crosshead, and slide blocks; the connecting rod working between the two pairs of guides. The bottom guides are often cast solid with the bedplate.

 674. Bar and slipper.

 675. Adjustable slipper; there are other adjustments for wear by wedge pieces, similar to No. 19. See also No. 21.

A plain guide bush is sometimes used as No. 682, and a forked connecting rod with long fork coupled to the gudgeon or crosshead.

 676. Section of No. 673 and alternative crosshead for two round bar guides.

 677. Slide bed and slipper.

 678. Section of trunk guide, cast with engine bed and bored out.

 679. Oscillating cylinder piston head guides.

 680. Oscillating fulcrum in lieu of guides.

 681. Diagonal crosshead and guide bars, to allow the crank and connecting rod end to pass the guide bars.

VALVE ROD GUIDES.

 682, 683, 684, & 685.

GUIDE ROLLERS.

 686 & 687. Guide rollers for ropes, &c.

 688 & 689. Guide rollers for bars of various sections.

LIFT AND HOIST GUIDES.

 690. Cage guided by four corner posts.

 691 & 692. Cage runs on two vertical rails, and is steadied by a third guide. For large cages. Small cages only require guides on one side, as 692.

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 693. Iron wire or rod guides, strained tight, are sometimes used, especially in mines, as guides for the cage; two are used to guide the cage and two for the balance weight.

 694. Planished round iron guides, with half round fixing brackets and runners attached to cage; these guides are equal to planed bars and much less costly; two are usually sufficient for any cage.

 695. T L or ⊔ iron guides, for goods lifts.

 696. Wire rope guides, with separate pair of wood guides for balance weight.

 697. Intermediate guides for double cage lifts; for large cages extra guides at each side should be used.

 698. Sloping carriage guides.

 699. Vertical bracket cage guides.

MACHINE GUIDE BEDS.

 700. Double V bed, with set screw adjustments.

 701. Guide bed for planing machine, or any machine where the bed is not liable to lift in working.

 702. Round bar and flat guide bed.

 703. Deep V guide; much used for crossheads, tool boxes, &c., requiring accurate movement.

 704. Lathe bed with square guides and adjustments for wear.

 705. Planing machine, double V bed.

 706. Crosshead for two single bar guides, with renewable wearing strips and square guide surfaces.

 707. Radial slide for tool box, usually of same section as No. 700.

ROPE GUIDES.

708, 709, & 710; in 709 the rope can be threaded without passing the end through.

Section 40.—GEARING, VARIOUS DEVICES IN (not otherwise classed).

 711. Conical rotatory gear. Applied to reaping machines. See also Pan Screen, No. 1264.

 712. Triangular eccentric, used to obtain a pause of one-third revolution at each end of the stroke.

 713. Face plate worm gear.

 714. Double rack and pinion gear.

 715. Double gear wheels.

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 716. Eccentric gearing; the wheel A being fixed on a crank pin in the driving wheel B, drives the dotted gear at a speed proportionate to the diameters of the wheels A and the driven wheel.

 717 & 718. Forms of epicyclic or planet gear. Several modes of driving these may be employed by fixing one or other of the three wheels, the other two revolving. See Differential Gear, Section 31.

 719. Multiple trammel gear. The pinion is half the diameter of the wheel, and makes two revolutions to one of the wheel.

 720. Trammel crank gear; the crank revolves once to two double strokes of the rod.

 721. Knight’s noiseless gearing, for two shafts running in opposite directions. Each shaft has two equal cranks at right angles, which are coupled by links to rocking arms, which are also coupled in pairs.

 722. Eccentric variable speed toothed gear.

 723. Scroll bevil gear.

 724. Segment reversing gear, to obtain two speeds in portions of one revolution, and in opposite directions. See Reversing Gear, Section 74.

 725. Snail wheel, or scroll ratchet.

 726. Combined spur and bevil wheel.

 727. Double screw gear, for steering gear, &c.

 728. Angular ball-jointed crank motion.

 729. Crank gearing between two shafts running in the same direction. See No. 187. The cranks should be similar to Nos. 174 or 175.

 730. Snail worm gear.

 731. Diagonal engine or pump, with bevil gear revolving motion and three or more cylinders.

 732. Angle coupling on Dr. Hooke’s principle. See No. 292.

 733. Worm and crown gear. Used in chaff machines; useful to obtain a slow feed on two shafts in opposite directions.

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 735. Scroll and rack.

 736. Variable speed gear, from an elliptical or other irregular-shaped driving wheel, combined with a tied idle intermediate wheel.

 737. Spring friction grip wheels.

 738. Intermittent reversible feed motion. The pinion is of leather, and drives the segment till it runs out of gear; when the machine is reversed it travels an equal distance the opposite way.

Section 41.—GOVERNING AND REGULATING SPEED, POWER, &c.

 739. Is a device for varying the opening of a main valve (connected to rod A) by the pressure on the small piston, which moves it against the tension of a spring.

 740, 741, 742, & 743. Types of centrifugal governors, of which numerous varieties are in use.

Pumping engines may be governed by allowing the pressure of water in the rising main to accumulate in a stand pipe or equivalent device until it stops the engine by excess of pressure. To prevent such an engine running away a catch is used, kept open by the pressure of water; when the pressure falls below a certain point the catch is released and closes the throttle valve.

Steam engines may also be safeguarded in the same way by a catch which is released and closes the throttle valve when the governor becomes fully expanded.

 744. Screw and nut device, to control the travel of any machine, such as a lift, by reversing the belt or throwing out a catch after any specified number of revolutions, the travel being adjusted by the stop nuts.

 745. The cataract is one of the oldest governing devices. It consists essentially of a vessel which is filled with water by one stroke of the engine, and empties itself through an adjustable orifice during the return stroke, the valve motion being prevented from reversing till the water is all discharged.

 746. Gas engine governor. Rod A has a reciprocating motion from the engine, and the spur on lever B strikes the end of the gas valve slide when brought in line with it by the motion of the governor, thus supplying gas only when the governor falls to a certain point.

Differential Governor. See Nos. 556 and 557.

Section 42.—HYDRAULIC MULTIPLYING GEAR.

 747. Is the ordinary “chain and sheave” multiplying gear, unequally geared, thus—

 748. Is the same plan, but equally geared—

 749. An arrangement of the sheaves suitable for vertical working, geared 8 to 1.

 750. An arrangement of the sheaves suitable for vertical working, but geared 6 to 1.

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 751. An arrangement of the sheaves suitable for vertical working, but geared 4 to 1.

 752. Stevens and Major’s patent for horizontal working. The angle of the chain helps to support the weight of the ram.

 753. Modification of 752, sometimes used, and suitable for both horizontal and vertical positions, with any required multiplication of speed.

 754. Rack gear; short stroke piston cylinder plan.

 755. Double rope vertical ram gear.

 756. Arrangement with the sheaves all at head of cylinder.

For Telescopic Hydraulic Lift, see Nos. 1217 & 616.

Hydraulic Balance gear, Nos. 371, 373.

Section 43.—HOOKS, SWIVELS, &c.

For Chains and Links, see Section 11.

 757. Double or match hook.

 758. Split link. See also the common Key Ring.

 759. Self-locking hook, with inclined shoulder and pin.

 760. The common “Lewis.”

 761. Self-gripping claw grab. See also 516, 505.

 762. Grab bucket, on same principle.

 763, 764, & 765. Double S links.

 766. Hook with rope grip.

 767. Snap hook.

 768. Snap link.

 769. Slip hook for a monkey or pile engine; a rope is attached to the eye in end of lever which pulls the loop link away from the bottom link to which the “monkey” is suspended, allowing it to fall.

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 770. Automatic slip hook; slips the T end of the “monkey” by the curved arms striking the sides of a fixed stop hole.

 771. Draw bar hook, self-locking.

 772. Fixed bar hook, with snap.

 773. Slip hook.

 774. Hook, with mousing ring; slip hook.

 775. Crane hook, with swivel.

 776. Double swivel links, inserted in a chain to take out the twist.

 777. Triangular link, to attach two chains to one.

 778. Safety link. Has a flat on link to slip in notch of hook.

 779. S link.

 780. Split link.

 781. Bolt shackle.

 782. Double link and bolt connection for ordinary chain.

 783. Pin shackle.

Section 44.—INDICATING SPEEDS, &c.

 784 & 785. Hand (portable) indicator, to indicate speed of revolution of a shaft, &c., by simple wheel work and dial plate.

 786. Governor gauge, indicates the speed by the angle of the balls moving a finger on a vertical scale.

 787. Steam engine indicator, of which there are many varieties. Macnaught’s, Richards’, Darke’s, Kraft’s, Casartelli’s, &c., are examples, in which a small steam piston operates a marking point by the varying pressure of steam acting against a spring; the paper is usually coiled on a cylinder having a reciprocating motion by a string from the engine.

 788. Morin’s dynamometer. Consists of two belt pulleys connected by a spring; one receives the strain of driving belt, and the other transmits it, the spring indicating the tension on the belts.

 789. Regnier’s dynamometer indicates the tension on the connections by contraction of the spring operating a dial plate.

 790. Bourdon tube pressure indicator. The tube is of flat section, and its curved portion expands with the pressure, operating a finger on the dial by rackwork.

 791. Worm gear and dial to register the number of revolutions. See No. 1559.

Other forms of pressure gauges are—1st. The mercurial gauge, in which the pressure is indicated by the height of a column of mercury in a glass tube. 2nd. The water gauge, in which a column of water replaces the mercury. 3rd. The spring balance (see No. 1729). See also Nos. 1730, 1728.

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 792 & 793. Winding engines are provided with indicators on the principle of No. 744. The travelling nut has a pointer whose position on a vertical graduated scale shows the position of the cage in the pit.

Vertical scale indicators are also employed to show the level of water in tanks, reservoirs, &c. See No. 1730.

Water tube indicators are employed to show the level of water in boilers, &c., as also gauge cocks fixed at various heights in the boiler.

Section 45.—JETS, NOZZLES, AND INJECTORS.

 794. Straight jet, for long distances.

 795. Short jet.

 796. Rose jet, for spreading.

 797. Fan jet, or spreader.

 798. Blast tuyere.

 799. Smith’s tuyere and water bosh.

 800. Jet aspirator, for inducing a mixed current of air and water or steam.

 801. Steam jet pump; the steam enters by the central jet and causes a vacuum, into which the water rises by the branch pipe.

 802. Insufflator for steam and air blast; used also as a petroleum injector, &c.

 803 & 805. Spray jets; the liquid rises by gravity at the small vertical nozzles, and is driven in a spray or mist by a cross blast of air from the horizontal jets.

 804. Injector. The varieties of this contrivance are too numerous to specify. See Graham’s, Gifford’s, Hall’s, Hancock’s, and others in common use.

 806. Plain or spreading jet. The eight vanes can be pushed into the jet of water to cut it up by moving the sliding ring.

 807. Ventilating jet or aspirator, with several lateral openings for inducing a current.

Jet condensers. See Section 25.

Section 46.—JOURNALS, BEARINGS, PIVOTS, &c.

See also Section 70.

 808. Plain or solid pedestal.

 809. Half bearing, sometimes used without a cotter.

 810. Half bushed bearing, having a half brass on the lower side only.

 811. Chambered long bearing.

 812. The ordinary double brassed pedestal or plummer block; sometimes made with the cap and joint of brasses at an angle of 45° when the shaft is subject to horizontal thrust. Numerous modifications of this bearing exist.

 813. Slot bearing for rising and falling spindle.

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 814 & 815. End thrust bearings.

 816. Sliding bearing, with vertical or horizontal traverse.

 817. Double V bearing to accommodate different sizes of shafts.

 818. Vertical shaft footstep.

 819. Vertical pivot.

 820. Horizontal pivot and set screw; the screw should have a lock nut to prevent it being worked back by the motion of the spindle.

 821. Conical neck, usually with steel bush.

 822. Spherical footstep, to allow the shaft to sway out of the perpendicular.

 823. Horizontal bearing, allowing the shaft to run out of line.

 824. Balanced bearing, to bear the weight of a light shaft, and placed between the fixed bearings.

 825. Self-adjusting bearing for line shafts, with ball and socket movement.

 826. Ball and socket bearing for vertical spindle, allowing considerable variation from a right line.

 827. Horizontal thrust bearing, with multiple flanges and double brasses, each capable of separate adjustment; used for screw shafts in steam-ships.

 828. A form of pedestal, with the cap provided with end joggles to prevent looseness.

 829. Trunnion bearing, for oscillating cylinders, &c. The steam is conveyed through the bearing, which has a stuffing box and gland to prevent leakage.

 830 & 832. Swinging support for a shaft, having a sliding bevil gear or other motion upon it which has to pass the swinging support; used for lathe sliding gear, overhead travellers, &c.

 831. Ball and socket centre for car bogies, &c.

 833. Pedestal with side adjustment for the brasses by taper keys and screw adjustments.

Bearings running under water are generally lined with strips of lignum vitæ and require no lubricant.

So-called self-lubricator bearings are in use, lined with strips of patent composition metal.

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 834. Centre bearing, with annular grip, for a heavy centre piece or car bogie.

 835. Centre bearing, with allowance for some amount of oscillation.

Coupled bearings. No. 671.

Section 47.—PLATE WORK.

 836. Single riveted lap joint.

 837. Double riveted lap joint.

 838. Single riveted butt joint.

 839. Double butt joint.

 840. T-iron butt joint.

 841, 842, 843, & 844. Angle or edge seams.

 845. Transverse tubular seam.

 846, 847, & 848. Reducing ring seams.

 849, 850, 851, & 852. Bottom seams round water spaces, fire-boxes, &c.

 853. Expansion hoop joint in boiler flues, &c.

 854 & 855. Fire-box stays.

 856. Gusset stay for flat ends.

Flat bar, tube, and round iron stays are also much used to stay flat surfaces in boilers and tanks.

In household boilers it is usual to weld all the seams, thus avoiding L iron and other riveted work. See Nos. 89 to 96.

Flue tubes in boilers are stayed also by cross tubes inserted at intervals, such as Galloway’s patent conical cross tubes.

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 857 & 858. Cover plates to carry tensile strains over joints in plates, L irons, &c.

 859, 860, 861, 862, & 863. Various forms of joints employed in plate iron structures, boxes, tanks, &c., not subject to much strain. 863 is a dovetailed joint.

 864. T or L iron strut end joint.

 865. Junction of flat bar and diagonal T or L iron.

 866. Gusset plate joint for diagonal ties and struts.

 867. Mode of jointing boiler plate corners by tapering the corners of the plates.

 868. Another form of angle joint.

Section 48.—LEVERS.

Levers are of three orders (see Section 53). The fulcrum or rocking centre may be at either end or at some intermediate point. In practice the fulcra are usually shafts or pins (see Sections 76 and 77), and the following are the typical forms in use.

 869, 870, 871, & 872. Elevation and plans of plain levers, with end bosses for rod attachments.

 873. Plan of plain lever, with forked end.

 874 & 875. Bell crank levers, with plain or forked ends.

 876. T or double cranked lever.

 877. Forked end, off-set.

 878. Fish bellied lever of the 2nd order.

 879. Balance weight lever.

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 880. Hand lever, with round handle.

 881. Hand lever, with flat handle.

 882. Another form of round handle sometimes used.

 883. Crank handle.

 884. Starting lever, with spring catch.

 885. Another pattern of ditto.

 886. Similar lever, with side or crank handles.

 887. Foot lever.

 888. Foot treadle frame.

 889. Wrist plate or T lever.

 890. Hand lever, adjustable as to length by means of a slot and locking bolt. For this purpose a plain round rod passed through a central socket and fixed at any radial length by a set screw, is often used; or the hand rod may be cranked as No. 1784.

 891. Double hand lever.

 892. Lever, formed of two wrought iron or steel plates and distance pieces.

 893 & 894. Rocking levers, with sliding swivel joints.

 895. Forked lever, to span a central bearing.

 896. Hand lever, simple pattern; wrench or spanner.

 897. Headed lever, for valve rod and other movements. See Nos. 149 to 152.

See also Section 97.

Section 49.—LOCKING DEVICES.

 898. Common sliding bolt.

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 899. Common latch.

 900. Cam locking bolt; locks the bolt when either in or out, so that it can only be moved by the cam spindle.

 901. Crank movement locking bolt, similar to the last.

 902. Bolt of common lock.

 903. Disc and pin.

 904. Side pawl.

 905. Locking pawl.

For Pawl and Ratchet Gear see Section 62.

 906. Spring catch, with round end which slips past the socket if sufficient force is applied, used for swing doors, &c.

 907. Another form, bevilled on one side.

 908. Hook latch.

 909 & 910. Hasp and staple.

 911. Crossbar and hooks.

 912. Hand set screw.

 913. Drop catch for turntable, &c.

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 914. Turning or twisting bolt.

 915. Rope or rod stopper, with cam lever grip. See No. 47.

 916. Chain stop.

 917 & 918. Spindle grips, to lock a sliding or revolving spindle in a bearing or bush.

 919. Clamp and screw.

 920. Sliding shaft locking pin; used for lathe headstock back-gear shafts, &c.

 921. Lever locking hook; the lever is hinged so that it can be slipped over the hook.

 922. Bow catch for ladles, skips, &c.

 923. Segment-slot and bolt fixing for swivelling base.

 924. Pin lock for turntable or disc.

 925. T catch.

 926. Roller and incline slot for locking a rod or rope.

 927. Revolving bush lock for catch rod; the catch rod can only slip through the bush when the latter is in one position (see plan view).

 928. Wire fencing notches in L or ⊔ iron.

 929. Trap door automatic catch.

 930. Screw and bridle suspension, for blast pipes, &c.

 931. Drop loop fastening for a door.

 932. Spring stud lock.

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 933. Disc and radial slot; the rod can be slipped out sideways when the disc is turned so as to bring the slots together.

 934. Radial hinged lever and crown ratchet.

 935. Locking bar to fix a lever in any position.

 936. Pawl for locking sliding shaft, used for winches, &c., having double and single purchase gear or shifting clutches.

 937. Fastening eye bolt for a hinged cover; the bolt is also hinged, and can be turned down out of the way. See also No. 1930.

 938. Crank arm device, to lock a valve or lever in two positions. See also No. 16.

 939. Gun, breech-loading, sliding cylindrical block locked by turning the arm into a notch.

 940. Door fastening staple and cotter.

 941. Common cotter.

 942. Half nut locking and unlocking device, used for lathe leading screws; the half nuts are moved simultaneously in opposite directions by cams on the lever spindle.

 943. Swinging catch to secure end of a drop bar.

 944. Tool post, to swivel and lock in any position. See also No. 493.

 945. Locking screw, to lock the hand wheel and spur pinion to the shaft when required to be driven by it.

See also Lock Nuts. The common varieties of lever locks with stepped key-wards.

See No. 1723.

Section 50.—HINGES AND JOINTS.

 946. The common double-leaf hinge.

 947. Rising hinge, to cause the door to lift slightly as it opens, it will then close of itself without a spring.

 948. Cup and ball hinge.

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 949 & 950. Pintle hinges.

 951 & 952. Parchment or leather hinging for wood movements.

 953. Dovetail joint, used on iron bedsteads, &c.; the circular dovetail is slightly tapered and fitted tight.

 954. Hinge for a door, required to lay flat against the wall at either side when open.

 955. Hinge pin for rocking levers on a knife edge.

 956. Door spring hinge, to return the door always to its central position; the cams press against a roller attached to the springs.

 957. Another method, with tension springs.

 958. Rocking bearing or knife edge, used for weighing machines, &c.

 959. Knuckle joint, halved together; the bolt secures the two parts together.

 960. Door spring hinge with open springs and toggle movement.

 961. Gate hinges, with double pintle at bottom to cause the gate to return to the central position without springs.

 962. Link hinge, for a grid or trap door, to allow it to lie flat when opened.

 963. Bayonet joint. A common device.

 964. Double scarfed and joggled joint, for pump, rods, &c., with ferrules and keys to tighten up.

 965. Universal joint. See Dr. Hooke’s Joint, Nos. 33 and 34.

 966. Knuckle jointed levers.

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 967. The common male and female or nipple and socket rod joint.

 968. Multiple hinges, with one centre bolt, for long or heavy doors.

 969. Scarfed rod or bar joint.

 970. Another form of hinge, to effect the same object as No. 954.

See also Swivel Joints, Nos. 893 and 894. Sections 49, 4, and 48.

Section 51.—LUBRICATORS.

I do not propose to attempt to illustrate the vast tribe of “greasers” of all kinds. They would easily fill a moderate volume, but scarcely repay the reader for perusal. I shall content myself here as elsewhere by indicating the types of most interest and importance to the machine draughtsman.

Besides the simple cup or enlarged oil hole, oil box, and grease cup, the following are the most commonly employed:—

 971. Oil pan for gearing, worms, wheels, &c.

 972. Revolving wire lubricator; carries a drop of oil on to the shaft at each revolution.

 973. Roller and pan lubricator. Can be employed also for gum, paste, paint, &c.

 974. Screw ram lubricator, to force lubricant into a cylinder or pipe against pressure, with non-return valve.

 975. Telescopic tube lubricating device, for reciprocating or revolving joints, such as crank pins.

 976. Another tubular device for crank pins; a hollow cup on end of a tube stands opposite the centre of the shaft, and can be fed with oil while revolving, the oil running down the tube during the lower half revolution.

 977. Stauffer’s lubricator for thick oil, which is forced in by screwing down the cap.

 978. Shaft bearing lubricator by the capillary action of pieces of cane, the lower ends of which dip into the oil cistern.

 979. Endless string lubricator.

 980. Single cock lubricator, with screwed cap for filling.

 981. Double cock lubricator.

 982. Hollow plug cock.

The last three are used to feed oil against steam pressure.

 983. Lieuvain’s needle lubricator. A loose wire (one end of which touches the revolving shaft and the other is in the oil); keeps the oil flowing as long as the shaft is running.

 984. The pressure of steam enters the cup above the oil, which is fed through an adjustable small valve at bottom.

 985. Plunger or ram and cylinder lubricator, with ratchet feed worked from some reciprocating part of engine.

Lubricating or inking rollers to evenly cover a flat surface are placed at an angle of about 10° to the direction of motion of the surface to be lubricated or inked.

Large engines are fitted with an oil reservoir, and pipes are led to all joints, bearings, &c., with small cocks for regulation.

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Section 52.—LEVELLING AND PLUMBING.

The common spirit level and plumbline are ordinarily employed, as also the surveyor’s telescope and spirit level or “Dumpy.”

 986. Gravitation level.

 987. Plumbline and square.

 988. Water tube level; the tube may be carried a long distance and round corners, &c., in any direction below the water level.

 989. Spirit level plumbing square.

Section 53.—MECHANICAL POWERS. APPLIANCES TO VARY POWER AND SPEED.

 993. Wheel and axle; power gained and speed reduced in proportion to the diameters of the two sheaves.

 994. Return block; power multiplied 2 to 1.

 995. Two double sheave blocks; power multiplied 4 to 1.

 996. Four single blocks; power same as No. 995.

 997. Three return blocks; power multiplied 8 to 1.

See Applications, Section 42.

The inclined plane is simply a modification of the force of gravity, which acts vertically.

The wedge. See Section 37.

The screw is simply a circular inclined plane. See Section 78.

See also Gearing, Sections 40 and 84.

Section 54.—MIXING AND INCORPORATING.

 998. Kneading mill, with spiral vanes.

 999. Pug mill, with radial spiral paddles revolving inside a conical case.

1000. Pug mill, with spiral paddles.

1001. Pan mixer. A cylindrical case or pan with a set of arms revolving with the central shaft.

1002. Egg beater or mixing machine. Two sets of open radial frames revolve in opposite directions, the frames being shaped to pass through each other, and are driven by mitre gear driving a shaft and sleeve.

1003. Diagonal mixing barrel, with revolving and fixed vanes.

1004. Conical mixing barrel of similar construction.

1005. Diagonal mixing pan, used for confectionery, &c.

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1006. Mixer, with two pairs of arms running in opposite directions.

See Cross section.

1007. A modification of the last; the centres of the arms being above one another so that the arms pass each other in revolving.

1008. Horizontal table mixing machine. The stuff works its way from the centre to the edge of the table by centrifugal force.

See also No. 60. Anderson’s patent employs this plan to continuously distribute purifying material through water with which the revolving drum is charged.

See Section 13. Crushing, grinding, &c.

Section 55.—PARALLEL MOTIONS.

Purpose: to maintain rectilinear motion of a rod or equivalent detail coupled to a lever without employing guide bars.

1009. Watt’s parallel motion for a beam engine.

1010. Rack and segment motion.

1011. Epicycloidal parallel motion. The pinion is one-half the diameter of the wheel at the pitch lines, and the gudgeon is fixed upon the pitch line of the pinion.

1012. Peaucellier’s parallel motion. A is a fixed centre; B (for parallel motion) must be one-half way to C; power is applied to C; D parallel centre gudgeon.

1013. Beam, with rocking fulcrum. A A are equal, as also B B.

1014. Single radius bar and link; the radius bar to be same length as the half beam and the link hinged on its centre.

1015. All the radius bars to be of same length as the half beam.

1016. Two equal radius bars connected by a link, the main gudgeon in its centre.

1017. Beam of the 2nd order with rocking fulcrum, A and A being equal.

1018. Sector and rack motion.

See also No. 714.

Section 56.—PUMPING AND RAISING WATER.

Some of the most primitive methods are still in use, and may possibly still be found of service in particular cases.

1019. Scoop wheel.

1020. Dipping trough.

1021. Endless chain of buckets.

1022. Archimedean screw; a spiral pipe serves the same purpose as the worm revolving in a cylindrical case.

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1023. Chain pump, frequently used still. The lower length of pipe should be bored to fit the buckets on chain; the rest of the pipe may be a little larger in diameter and not bored.

1024. Lifting wheel for raising water.

The following four examples are machines for raising water to any height by employing a fall of water of comparative low pressure:—

1025. Hydraulic ram. A stream of water runs down the incline pipe and flows away at the ball valve; when its speed reaches a certain point it suddenly closes the ball valve, and the shock opens the delivery valve, water flows into the air vessel till the power of the stream is checked, when the delivery valve closes, the ball drops, and the action is repeated.

1026. The Robinet. Direct-action water pressure self-acting pump; performs the same work as the hydraulic ram, that is by using a low fall and large quantity of water it raises a smaller quantity to a greater height, the low-pressure water acting on the large double-acting piston. The valve is reversed by the motion of the engine.

1027. Hydraulic pumping engine. A modification of the Robinet. A is the driving cylinder, B the pump. The main slide valve is worked by two pistons, and the pressure water distributed by an auxiliary four-way cock or small slide valve, connected to a stop rod from the main crosshead. See also No. 1741. See Sec. 93.

1028. Water wheel and pump.

1029. Single-acting bucket or suction pump.

1030. Single-acting ram force pump. Sometimes an open top cylinder and piston are used instead of a ram, as No. 1029.

1031. Double-acting ram and piston pump. Forces on both strokes; sucks only on the up stroke.

1032. Double-acting plunger or ram pump, externally packed; a favourite arrangement.

1033. Double-acting piston pump, four valves. This is of course a type of a very great variety of pumps.

1034. Double-action piston pump, without valves. The piston has an oscillating or radial motion (see plan), as well as an up and down motion, so that the two ports are alternately open to the upper and under side of piston by the small passages A A. The required motion can be obtained from No. 406, crank motion.

1035. Rope pump. A simple endless soft or porous rope absorbs water at its lower part (immersed), which water is pressed out of it between the rollers at top.

1036. Apparatus to supply air to air vessels. The main pump at every stroke draws a small quantity of water from the small air vessel A, and on the return stroke forces an equal quantity of air from the smaller to the larger vessel B. C is a double air valve.

1037. Combined bucket and plunger pump draws on the up stroke only, but delivers on both strokes.

1038. Air pump, with foot and head valves.

1039. Hand or power pump. Can be thrown into action from the crank shaft by fastening the set screw, or may be worked independently by the hand lever.

1040. “Worthington” pattern of plunger pump, double acting.

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1041. Double barrel pump, with bucket pistons. The water passes both pistons, which are fitted with valves opening opposite ways.

1042. Oscillating sector or quadrant pump, with one vane or piston.

1043. Double quadrant pump. The two vanes are worked by links from a single crank.

1044. Oscillating pump, with two radial vanes keyed to a central rocking shaft.

1045. Hollow plug; oil or water feeder.

1046. Double ram pump.

Rising mains in mines and wells have been used as the main pump rods in some instances.

In pumping up to a tank or reservoir from which a down service pipe is taken, the pump can be arranged to deliver into this pipe at its nearest convenient point, instead of having a second pipe from the pump to the tank.

1047. Schmid’s trunk cyl. hydraulic pumping engine utilises a low-pressure supply to force from the annular side of the piston a high-pressure service.

See also rotary engines and pumps, Section 75.

Pumping engines, Section 61.

Section 57.—PIPES AND CONVEYORS.

Plain tubing may be either of iron, brass, zinc, lead, tin plate, sheet iron, papier mâché, indiarubber, guttapercha, leather, cotton, or canvas.

Flexible sorts of the last five materials named are strengthened when required by spiral wire, either inside or outside or imbedded in the material; also, in the case of rubber, by canvas insertion; or by being payed with yarn or wire, either wound or plaited round the exterior.

CAST IRON PIPES.

1048 to 1053. Show sections and elevations of forms of flanges employed. 1053 has a small V space, in which is inserted a ring of guttapercha cord or soft lead. Used for heavy pressures.

1054. Socket and spigot pipes.

The ordinary earthenware socket drain pipes, flue pipes, &c., are examples.

1055. Socket and spigot pipes, with tapered, bored, and turned joint.

1056. Cup and ball joint for uneven ground, &c.

1057. Wrought iron pipes, with cast iron flanges.

1058. Diagonal universal joint. See No. 1078.

1059. Swivelling joint. Coupling quickly opened or closed, faced with rubber or leather.

1060. Bayonet joint, for hydrants, &c. See No. 963.

WROUGHT IRON PIPES.

1061. Sheet iron flue pipes.

1062. Wrought iron pipe and screwed couplings.

1063. Wrought iron flange coupling.

1064. Reducing socket or coupling.

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1067. Bend.

1068. Internal coupling for handrailing, &c.

1069. Patent lap-folded pipe.

1070. Long screw, coupling and back nut, for making the last joint in a series of pipes when the last piece cannot be screwed into both joints.

1071 to 1073. Screwed unions. The nut may be as No. 1072 or 1073.

See also Section 78.

1074 & 1075. Unions with right and left-hand threads.

1076. Expansion joint plain.

1077. Expansion joint with gland and safety bolt to prevent the joint blowing out.

A bent U-shaped tube of copper is sometimes used as an expansion piece in a line of hot piping.

1078. Royle’s patent diagonal universal joint, by swivelling the diagonal joint the pipes can be set at any angle from 0° to 90° to each other.

1079. Expanding pipes with stuffing boxes at each joint, used for conveying water, steam, or air to a movable engine or machine.

CONVEYORS.

1080 & 1081. Wood troughs sometimes lined with metal.

For conveying materials other than liquids, such as sand, coal, grain, &c., the following contrivances are used:—

Endless bands of canvas, rubber, leather, &c., sometimes with flanges like 1082.

Sloping wooden tubes or shoots.

1082. Sectional conveyor, endless, carried round pulleys like No. 1083.

1083. Creeper, an endless chain of boards or buckets sliding along a fixed wood trough. See Ewart’s patent detachable drive chain, which is fitted with special links for attachment of boards or buckets.

1084. Worm and trough, similar in principle to an archimedean screw.

See No. 1022.

Elevators for vertical or sloping conveyance usually consist of an endless band of some flexible material or chain with a number of tin or metal buckets attached at regular intervals (as No. 1086) like a creeper, No. 1083, but working in an enclosed tube.

Pneumatic tubes. See Section 19. Valves for do., No. 1638.

1085. Is an improved form of worm having no centre shaft. “Patent Anti-Friction Conveyor.”

1086. Elevator, or band and buckets, may be run in any position.

1087 & 1088. Endless web and roller devices for conveying sheets of paper, for printing or folding.

See also Raising and Lowering, Section 69.

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Section 58.—PACKINGS, JOINTS, STUFFING BOXES, &c.

PISTONS.

1089. Piston with junk ring; the packing is sometimes cast iron, steel, brass, or phosphor bronze rings, or even hemp or asbestos.

1090. Small pistons have generally two rings of steel or brass sprung into the grooves.

1091. Double-acting hydraulic piston for cold water; if single acting, one leather only is required; for hot water, rings are generally employed.

1092. Indiarubber rolling ring packing, used on Kennedy’s patent piston water meters.

1093. Piston, with junk ring for fibrous packing.

Numerous patents are in use for springs of various kinds applied to piston rings. See Section 80.

STUFFING BOXES, &c.

1094, 1095, 1096, & 1097. Sections and plans of gland stuffing boxes.

1098. Leather packing ring or collar, used generally for higher pressures up to 3 or 4 tons per square inch.

1099. Stuffing box for hydraulic rams, up to pressures of about 1000 lbs. per square inch, with special hard packing.

1100 & 1101. When the wear on an hydraulic leather is considerable a guard-ring should be added, as shown here.

1102. Stannah’s patent stuffing box; the packing is tightened by a set screw.

1103 & 1104. Ram leathers, with gland to facilitate renewing.

1105. Grooved steam packing. It is said that the steam will not readily pass a series of grooves round a piston rod.

1106. Useful form of gland for a screwed spindle, the thread being cut in the outer cap.

1107. V-ring piston packing rings. The inner spring ring presses the outer rings out against the cylinder.

1108. “Bottle” gland to cover a reciprocating rod end.

1109. Gland with oil space to keep the rod lubricated.

1110. Water lute or seal for gas holders, &c.

1111. Grooved joint for packing round covers, &c.

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1112. Indiarubber sheet joint for the tubes of condensers, the rubber being pressed around the tube joints by a plate with projecting rings. See Plate, page 139.

1113. V-ring metallic gland packing. See Plate, page 139.

Joints of plane surfaces are usually made with red-lead for steam and water; asbestos, millboard, and sometimes rubber insertion, tape, paper, or wire gauze for steam, water, air, &c.

Section 59.—PROPULSION.

(See also Sections 60, and 12.)

On land, vehicles, &c., may be propelled by:

On water, vessels are propelled by:

In air, balloons have been propelled by:

But the two latter sources must be at present considered almost impracticable.

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MEANS EMPLOYED FOR PROPULSION.

On land:

On water, vessels are propelled by:

In air, balloons are propelled by:

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Section 60.—MOTIVE POWER.

It is assumed that all physical energy is derived more or less directly from the sun, whose rays combine: 1, heat; 2, light; 3, actinic or chemical power.

Heat may be obtained:

Light does not separately develop power.

Chemical reactions are employed to develop heat, combustion, contraction, or expansion, as means of developing power.

From the foregoing elementary physical sources the following are the practical sources of our power for mechanical purposes.

• Electrical power.
• Magnetic power.
• Tidal motion.
• Falling water.
• Descending weights.
• Wave motion.
• Wind.
• Expansion of air or other gases.
• Steam.
• Explosives.
• Fuels, hydrocarbons, &c.

These are employed in producing power by the following apparatus or motors:—

Electric motors driven from a dynamo, battery, or accumulator.

Magnetic power cannot be employed continuously as a motor, as it gives out only as much as it receives.

Tidal motion can be utilised to drive any kind of wheel, see Water Wheels, Section 90. It can also be stored in a reservoir, driving a water engine as it flows in and out on the flood and ebb; or a floating vessel may, by its rise and fall, communicate motion to machines.

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Falling water; for machines employed to utilise, see Water Wheels, Section 90; Turbines, Water-pressure Engines, &c., Section 93.

Descending weights must first of course be raised, absorbing as much power in raising as they give out in falling, neglecting friction. Clockwork; water; or compression of a spring (see Section 80); multiplying pulleys (see Section 42), are the apparatus employed to utilise this form of energy.

Wave motion is too uncertain and erratic to be a practicable source of power. Rocking air-compressing chambers, rocking pumps, &c., have obtained some small measure of success.

Wind, windmills. See Section 95.

Expansion of air and gases. Ascending currents of hot air from a fire are used to drive a light screw motor, fan, &c. Hot-air engines, see Ryder’s patent and numerous others, which depend upon alternate expansion and contraction of air by heating and cooling. Air compressed in an accumulator or reservoir is employed to give motion to multiplying pulleys or an air engine.

Expansion of liquids, other than water (by heat), into the gaseous form. Engines in which the fuel is burnt under pressure and the total products of combustion employed (with or without steam) to drive a motor.

Steam is in reality one of the last-mentioned sources of power; it is employed by direct pressure on a piston or ram (see Section 32); or to produce direct rotary motion (see Section 75); also in the jet pump, No. 801; or injector (see Section 45); or by direct pressure on a body of water contained in a closed vessel, as in the pulsometer, steam accumulator, &c.

Explosives are substances which, by application of flame, heat, percussion, &c., suddenly assume the gaseous form, thus increasing their bulk many hundred times, usually in a small fraction of a second of time. A second class comprise explosive mixtures of gases, such as hydrogen, and oxygen, carburetted hydrogen, and air. Some attempts have been made to employ explosive substances to drive engines in various ways, but with no permanent success. The second class of explosive mixtures of gases are largely employed in the gas engine, petroleum engine, and their varieties.

Fuels, hydrocarbons, &c., are employed to evaporate water into steam; to expand air or other gases, or convert liquids into gases; and also by vaporisation to supply gas for use in some forms of gas engine.

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Section 61.—PUMPING ENGINES, TYPES OF.

VERTICAL ENGINES.

1114. Vertical direct-acting, with either ram pump, ram and piston pump, or piston only. See Section 56.

1115. Slot and crank motion, a variety of the last named. Of course any other kind of crank driving can be employed. See Section 10.

The frame standards are frequently used as air vessels or valve chests.

1116. Direct-acting ram pump, with fly-wheel worked off crosshead pin.

1117. Direct-acting, with yoke crosshead; much used in the northern counties. The standards form air vessels and valve boxes, and they are made both of the piston and ram types.

1118. Three-cylinder, with yoke crosshead. Either the centre cylinder or the two side ones can be used as the steam motor cylinders, or the pumps.

HORIZONTAL ENGINES.

1119. The ordinary direct-acting engine, with either steam-moved or tappet valves, see Tangye’s “Special,” the “Coalbrookdale,” and others, in which the slide valve is operated by pistons controlled by auxiliary tappet valves on the same principle as No. 1506.

1120. Direct-acting, with crosshead and guide bars between the cylinders.

1121. Two modifications of No. 1120.

1123. Direct-acting, with rocking lever valve motion; see the “Worthington” and other “Duplex” pumps, in which two engines are combined so that one works the valve of the other.

1122, 1124, & 1125. Other forms of direct-acting engines.

1126. Horizontal compound direct-acting. The high-pressure cylinder, low-pressure ditto, and receiver are side by side, and the air pump and main pump in line with the steam cylinders.

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1127. Horizontal pumping engine, with yoked crossheads and crank in centre.

1128 & 1129. Horizontal compound lever engines.

1130. Davey’s patent vertical compound beam mining pump.

The Cornish beam pumping engine is too well known to need illustration.

In mining pumps the pump rod has occasionally been made of iron pipe and employed as the rising main.

1131. Geared pumping engine, with steam cylinder and pump side by side; the speed of the steam piston is reduced on the pump by spur gearing.

Section 62.—PAWL AND RATCHET MOTIONS.

INTERMITTENT MOTION.

1132. The common ratchet-wheel and pawl, or detent.

1133. Ditto, with compound pawls to check angular motion less than the pitch of the teeth.

1134. Locking pawl.

1135. Strut-action pawl.

1136. Indiarubber ball pawl; sometimes a solid roller is substituted for the indiarubber ball.

1137. Reverse ratchets, for continuous feed from an oscillating arm.

1138. Ball and socket ratchet, will work at an angle.

1139. Pawl, used with ordinary spur teeth, and sometimes made reversible (see dotted lines), to drive the opposite way.

1140. Ratchet bosses.

1141. Silent pawl; the pawl is lifted out of gear while reversing by the motion of the toggle joint and lever.

1142. Crown ratchet and pawl.

1143. Application of No. 1136 as a silent feed motion.

1144. Click and detent continuous feed motion.

1145. Hare’s foot ratchet motion with detent.

1146. Silent feed. The jaw grips the rim of wheel when moving in one direction and runs loose the other way.

1147. Reciprocating into intermittent rotary motion.

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1148. Reciprocating circular motion into intermittent circular ditto, Kaiser’s patent.

1149. Continuous circular motion into intermittent ditto, Kaiser’s patent. The wheel A is locked by the ring C while the finger B is out of gear, the ring then passing between the teeth of A.

1150. Cam-ring intermittent feed motion.

1151. Modification of the last named; in both the wheel is locked during the dead movement of the cam by the flange passing between the teeth.

1152. Slot wheel and pin gear.

1153. Segment-wheel intermittent feed motion; locked during the dead movement of driving wheel.

1154. The pawl is lifted out of gear at each revolution of the pin wheel A and the ratchet moved one or more teeth.

1155. Double pawls and links for continuous feed motion.

1156. The cam A is eccentric to the wheel B, and slips out of gear at any required point while the driving wheel makes a partial revolution.

1157. Spring-pawl feed motion; the large wheel with pawl attached drives the ratchet wheel.

1158. Rocking lever and double pawls for raising a rack.

1159. Internal pawls, dropping into gear by gravitation.

1160. The pawl is lifted out of gear by the act of putting the handle on the square end of shaft, the handle having a boss shaped so as to lift the pawl.

1161. Star wheel and fixed pawl for conveying intermittent motion to screw on revolving disc; used for boring-bars, slide rests, &c.

1162. Pendulum and ratchet escapement.

1163. Cylinder escapement.

1164. Pendulum and double ratchet wheel escapement.

1165. Enlarged plan of cylinder escapement.

1166. Lever escapement.

1167. Double pawl and pin wheel escapement.

1168. Three-leg pendulum escapement.

1169. Self-sustaining ratchet motion. Pulling the cord A throws the pawl out of gear by the straightening of the cord forcing back the bent pawl lever.

1170. Verge escapement.

1171. Intermittent circular motion by revolving pawl and detent.

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1172. Spanner ratchet; a simple spanner having a pin near one end of one of the jaws which slips into the teeth of the ratchet wheel.

1173. V pawl; operates by wedging itself between the V flanges.

1174. Gravity pawls and ratchet wheel.

1175. Ratchet wheel, used to govern the striking gear of a clock.

1176. The pawl is hinged to the jointed end of the lever, and is pulled out of gear by the return movement of the rod—silent feed.

1177. Pawl and rack.

1178. Roller and inclined segmental recess for silent feed motion.

1179. Gripping pawls and ring for silent feed motion.

Snail ratchet, No. 725.

Section 63.—PRESSING.

The ordinary Screw press and Hydraulic press are well-known machines.

1180. Rack and screw press.

1181. Power press or stamp, with double crank movement worked from below.

1182. Dick’s anti-friction press, with rolling contacts throughout.

1183. Hydraulic press, with dies for lead pipe making; a similar press is used for making earthenware drain and flue pipes, the material being forced out of an annular orifice.

1184. Wedge press.

1185. Ster-hydraulic press; a strand or rope is wound upon a barrel inside the cylinder, thus displacing the water and raising the ram.

1186. Screw fly press.

1187. Combined screw and hydraulic press. The screw is worked down by hand until the pressure becomes too great for hand power, when the pressing is finished by the hydraulic ram.

1188. Revolving dies.

1189. The “Boomer” double-screw toggle press, with increasing pressure as the press follower descends.

1190. Revolving toggle press, with similar capabilities but more restricted movement.

1191. Sector and link press for increasing pressure.

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1192. Press dies, with sliding plate for discharging.

1193. Screw and toggle press; a modification of No. 1189.

1194. Double ram hydraulic press for two pressures; the small ram is employed to give the first pressure, the large ram then finishes the pressing.

See also Section 13.

Section 64.—POWER AND SPEED, CONTRIVANCES TO VARY.

(See Mechanical Powers, Section 53.)

Section 65.—QUICK RETURN MOTIONS.

Employed for machines having a slow movement one way, and a quicker return movement.

1195. Slot lever and crank motion; gives a varying speed, quickest when the crank pin is at the bottom centre, and slowest when at the top, with a slight pause at each end of stroke.

1196. Whitworth’s motion. The pin A in the wheel B travels eccentrically in the crank disc, which is eccentric to the fixed boss on which the driving wheel B runs, so that the radius of the driving motion of the pin varies as it revolves and it travels up and down the slot in the disc.

1197. By two belts, one open and one crossed, and driving drums of different diameters.

1198. By two belts, one open and one crossed, but driven by the same drum. The middle pulley is loose, the left hand pulley is fast to the spur wheel, and the right hand pulley to the spur pinion.

Segment gear, gearing alternately with the internal ring and the central pinion. See No. 724.

See Section 74.

Section 66.—ROPE GEARING.

1199. V-grooved pulley rim for round rope.

1200. Multiple pulley rim, used for rope driving in mills, &c.

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1201. Single V-grooved pulley for hand ropes.

1202. Pulley for wire rope transmission, with wood bedding in the groove.

1203, 1204, & 1205. Clip pulleys, which grip the rope by its own tension.

Ordinary round grooved pulley. See Section 71, No. 1241.

Rope grip pulley, with snugs to wedge the rope and prevent slipping. See Section 71, No. 1242.

Pit head sheave. Used for quick running wire ropes. The boss is usually split to allow of expansion in cooling, and the arms are of wrought iron. See Section 71, No. 1243.

1206. Rope driving.

1207. Rope driving, with tightening pulley and weight.

1208. Rope grip pulleys, for driving a vertical rope, the large pulley has a V groove into which the rope is pressed by the small pulley.

1209. Jigger hoisting rope gear, used for whip cranes, &c., instead of spur gearing.

Wire rope transmission. Endless wire ropes of small diameter are used running over large pulleys and driven at a high speed (usually 3000 to 4000 feet per minute). This kind of power may be carried considerable distances and over uneven ground, but it is not desirable to have horizontal angles in the direction of the rope.

Section 67.—RESERVOIRS OF POWER. ACCUMULATORS.

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Section 68.—RECIPROCATING AND CIRCULAR MOTION, CONVERTING ONE INTO THE OTHER.

(See Circular and Reciprocating Motion, Section 21).

(See Pawl and Ratchet Motions, Section 62).

Section 69.—RAISING AND LOWERING.

(1.) BY HAND POWER.

1210. Hand rope and barrel hoist. In this machine gearing may be interposed between the hand rope wheel and rope drum to increase the power and reduce speed.

Note as to brake wheels: these should always be upon the load shaft so that the braking is not transmitted to the load through toothed gearing. Worm gear usually will not sustain a load without a brake wheel, unless there is an excess of friction which should not exist.

(2.) BY POWER.

This may be applied to any of the above as follows:—

a or b. To the ordinary winch by either gearing (see Section 84), belts (see Section 3), or friction gear (see Section 38).

1211. Where the barrel shaft has a slight horizontal movement, so that, by the lever, it can be forced into gear with the friction pinion to raise the load, or into the brake block to sustain the load or lower it.

Grooved friction V gearing is also sometimes used. See No. 667.

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(3.) HYDRAULIC GEAR. See Section 42.

The direct-acting plan is simply a ram and cylinder, as in the hydraulic press, the ram being as long as the height of travel of the cage. For multiplying cylinder hydraulic gear, see Section 42.

Balancing the dead load of cage, &c. This is usually done by weights attached to the end of ropes running over overhead pulleys and fastened to the cage, as in No. 370, or by an auxiliary cylinder and ram of short stroke loaded to the required weight, and communicating with the lift cylinder by a pipe. See Section 20.

(4.) FOR LOWERING WEIGHTS ONLY.

Other hoisting devices are:

Direct-acting steam or air cylinders, the piston rods being coupled direct to the cage.

Air vessels, on the principle of the gasometer, but of a height equal to the travel, and diameter proportional to the pressure of air employed.

1212. Internal screw elevator. The vertical shaft has a feather groove, and carries a double crosshead with a wheel at each end, which run on the spiral guides and raise the cage.

1213. Screw elevator, for ice, &c. Vertical creeper.

1214. Travelling hoist, with in and out motion and rope.

1215. Steam digger and hoist.

1216. Hauling capstan. The rope, which is payed on and off the barrel, “fleets” itself as it travels along the barrel owing to its conical shaped flanges.

1217. Richmond’s patent differential telescopic hydraulic lift. The water under each piston is forced into the next cylinder above, so that the rams all travel upwards at proportional speeds, so as to reach the top of their stroke at the same time.

1218. Self-sustaining gear. The revolution of the pinion tends to lift the barrel and its brake wheel out of the brake; lowering is performed by relieving the brake wheel by a lever which raises it from the brake. Cherry’s patent.

1219. Belt hoist. Worked by a loose vertical belt, which is tightened by the lever and pulley when required to hoist, and in lowering a load the belt friction acts as a brake.

1220. Travelling hand hoist, with endless rope.

1221. Travelling cathead hoist. The cathead can be run back with its load; the winch is sometimes fixed to the travelling beam and moves in and out with it.

1222. Winding engine, usual type for direct acting.

1223. Geared winding engine.

1224. Steam winch, horizontal arrangement.

1225. Steam winch, diagonal arrangement.

1226. Steam winch, horizontal worm-gear plan.

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1227. Continuous lift, for parcels, &c. Has a number of small cages, boxes, or platforms suspended from horizontal pivots in two endless chains; the cages are guided so as always to hang vertical.

1228. Continuous lift, for passengers. Sometimes the cages are suspended from two endless chains at their tops, as last described; or sometimes from two endless chains, but with attachments to the cages at corners diagonally opposite each other; and sometimes from a single endless chain at the back, provided with guides, &c.

1229. Continuous barrel hoist.

See also Cranes, Section 18.

Section 70.—RELIEVING PRESSURE ON BEARINGS. ANTI-FRICTION BEARINGS.

1230. The pivots of two rollers or shafts bear against the inside of a stiff ring producing rolling contact, but the rollers or shafts must run in the same direction. Used for roller mills, &c.

1231. The same device, but for three rollers or shafts.

1232. The shaft is guided vertically and its weight is borne by a large roller with small pivots.

1233. The shaft runs in the V between two rollers as last described.

1234. Roller or ball bearing. The friction is least when the rollers have end pivots to run in loose rings so that the rollers are kept apart and do not rub each other in revolving.

1235. Hydraulic bearing, the shaft being sustained by water (or preferably oil) pressure.

1236. Vertical shaft, with cone rollers.

1237. Vertical shaft, with ball bearing.

1238. Vertical shaft, flanged and coned for cone rollers.

1239. Ordinary swivelling castor.

1240. Ball castor.

Section 71.—ROPE, BELT, AND CHAIN PULLEYS.

(See also Section 66.)

1241. Pulley for round rope without any grip.

1242. Round grooved pulley for round rope with gripping snugs.

1243. V pulley for round rope; pithead pulley.

Pulley for wire rope transmission, high speed with wood bedding. See Section 66, No. 1202.

Multiple rope gripping pulley for rope driving. See Section 66, No. 1200.

1244. Belt pulley, flat fare.

1245. Belt pulley, crown face. The rounding tends to keep the belt from running off.

1246. Flanged belt pulley.

1247. Speed cone for belt.

1248. Round grooved chain pulley.

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1249. Double grooved chain pulley; prevents the chain twisting.

1250. Pitched chain snug pulley or sprocket pulley. The pitch of snugs should be slightly longer than the chain, to allow for wear and stretching of the chain.

1251. Chain sprocket wheel, for long link chain at slow speeds.

1252. Sprocket wheel, for long flat link pitched chains.

1253 & 1254. Sections of rim showing single and double links.

1255. Sprocket wheel, for Ewart’s patent pitched chains. See Chains &c., Section 11.

Section 72.—RIDDLING AND SCREENING.

1256. Square mesh wire gauze.

1257. Perforated plate.

1258. Parallel bars or wires.

1259. Hexagon or triangular mesh wire work.

1260. Slit and square hole perforations, used for seeds, &c.

A form of variable mesh is manufactured by parallel series of diagonal bars jointed by pins to sliding cross-bars, so that the angle of the mesh bars can be altered and thus the spaces reduced or enlarged, on the same principle as No. 617.

1261. Sloping screen.

1262. Cylindrical or slope reel screen.

1263. Cylindrical graduated screen or sizer.

1264. Rotary screen, with rolling bevil gear motion. See No. 711.

1265. Rotary horizontal screen.

1266. Shaking or jigging screen. Sometimes supplied with a blast or aspirator to carry off the lighter particles.

1267. Eccentric or angular barrel screen or mixer.

1268. Air blast sizing or graduating apparatus.

1269. Edison’s magnetic sizing apparatus for iron or steel particles.

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1270. Graduating or sizing screens, either fixed as shown or kept in motion like No. 1266.

See also Concentrating and Separating, Section 26.

Section 73.—RAIL AND TRAM ROADS.

1271. Square bar rails.

1272. L-iron tram road; often made of cast-iron with the joints dove-tailed together.

1273. T-iron tram road.

1274. Tram road, with flanged plates for ordinary vehicles.

1275. Tram road, with one channel plate and one flat plate.

1276. Bridge rail.

1277. Bulb-head flanged rail.

1278. Double headed rail.

1279. “Barlow” rail.

1280. Bulb rail.

1281. Flush grooved tramway rail. See Nos. 1839-1841.

1282. Rolled joist rail.

1283. Bulb-iron rail.

1284. Edge’s patent perforated rail and toothed wheel.

Many forms of combined chair and sleeper are manufactured in wrought iron and steel.

1285. Left-hand switch.

1286. Shunting carriage, for transverse shunting; carries a short section of the main road and runs across it on independent rails laid on a lower level; often used instead of a turntable for shunting.

1287. Tramway switch.

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1288. Right and left-hand switch and crossing, showing arrangement of guard-rails.

1289. Flat bar on edge rail.

See Section 99 for other sections of rails.

Section 74.—REVERSING GEAR.

For Reversing Gear of Steam Engines, see Section 79.

1290. Reversible driving motion by open and crossed belts, with two loose and one fast pulleys.

1291. Reversible driving motion by single belt, two fast pulleys and one loose ditto and bevil gear, one bevil pinion having a sleeve to which its fast pulley is keyed, the other bevil pinion being keyed to the shaft.

1292. Reversible driving motion by single belt, with quick and slow motions; a modification of the last.

1293. By double clutch and bevil gear.

1294. Reversing friction cones or bevils.

1295. Three-wheel gear. The driving wheel A can be put into gear either with the driven wheel C or idle wheel B.

1296. Double clutch and spur gear reversing motion, with idle wheel.

1297. Reversing pinions, as used on the ordinary screw-cutting lathe. There are many varieties of this gear in use.

1298. Application of single belt gear to No. 1296.

1299. Self-reversing gear, with one belt, two fast and one loose pulleys. The large spur wheel is driven from the bevil gear, and carries the weighted lever past the vertical position by a stop on the face-plate or disc, when it falls over and reverses the belt fork. See No. 1026.

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1300. Self-reversing gear, as applied to planing machines. The stops can be set at any required distance apart, to alter the length of travel of the machine bed. This plan requires a heavy table to carry the belt across the loose pulley to the other fast pulley.

1301. Reversible belt-shifting hand gear.

1302. Right and left hand screw reversing traverse motion. Each lever has a half nut, which can be put in gear with the screw to drive either way. See also No. 163.

1303. Best form of fast and loose pulleys for open and crossed belt reversing gear, as used in No. 1290; the fast pulley is rather larger in diameter than the two loose ones.

1304. Single-belt reversing pulleys, the reverse motion on the shaft being obtained by intercepting an idle wheel A between the epicycloidal wheel B and the shaft pinion C, the middle pulley being the loose one; the idle wheel is carried by a fixed bracket and pin.

Note.—Reversible motion can be obtained direct from any steam engine fitted with reversing motion. See Valve Motions, No. 1436, &c.

Segment Reversing Gear, No. 724.

Section 75.—ROTARY ENGINES, PUMPS, &c.

Nearly all rotary engines can be used either as motors, pumps, blowers, or meters, and most of the following typical devices have been applied to all four purposes. Most of them are reversible by simply reversing the direction of the motor fluid.

1305. Disston’s; used as a pressure blower.

1306. Root’s, blower and pump.

1307. Root’s.

1308. Mackenzie’s; may have one, two, or three vanes.

1309. Gould’s.

1310. Bagley and Sewall’s.

1311. Greindl’s rotary pump.

1312, 1313, 1314, & 1315. Varieties of intergeared piston rotary engines.

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1316. The small crescent-shaped piston revolves three times to one revolution of the three-armed piston.

1317. The hinged shutter is thrown out of the way each time the revolving arm passes it.

1318. Sliding shutter and cam piston device.

1319 & 1320. Varieties of the “Root” engine.

1321. The hinged vanes are closed upon the revolving piston as they pass the flat side of the casing.

1322. Has an eccentric piston and two hinged vanes.

1323. Eccentric piston and sliding diaphragm.

1324. Klein’s motion. The eccentric ring revolves in contact with the inner and outer casings, but is prevented from revolving on its axis by the fixed shutter and slot.

1325. Baker’s pressure blower.

1326. A modification of No. 1323.

1327. The eccentric ring revolves on its centre, allowing the vanes to alternately project into the steam space as the wheel revolves.

1328. Ivory’s. An eccentric cam and two sliding shutters, with a central steam inlet.

1329. Mellor’s has a rocking vane oscillated by an eccentric piston carried round by a crank.

1330. Eccentric piston and two sliding vanes or steam stops.

1331. Differential rotary engine, with elliptical gear (see Section 34), or Stewart’s differential gear (No. 554) may be employed.

The “Tower” spherical engine is a well-known form of rotary engine. See Engineer, August 10th, 1883.

1332. An eccentric four-armed piston, with four rolling stoppers or packings.

1333. Mellor’s patent pump has a rocking vane or partition, with packing device which accommodates itself to the revolving oval piston.

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1334. Bisschop’s disc engine, with three or four cylinders, single acting, whose rams press alternately on the edge of the disc.

1335. Another form of disc engine, in which partitions (rising and falling vertically) form the steam stops.

1336. A modification of 1316.

1337. Rotary or centrifugal pump or fan, numerous varieties of which are in use. Many of the later forms, as Blackman’s and others, have the vanes fixed diagonally so as to propel the air at right angles to the plane of motion.

Section 76.—SHAFTING.

Employed to convey motion from a motor to various forms of driven machinery by gearing of various kinds. See Sections 3, 11, 38, 40, and 84.

Materials employed are:—Round, square, or polygonal wrought iron or steel bars, cast iron, wood, iron or steel tubes, planished round iron and steel bars, &c.

Stow’s flexible shafting. See No. 442.

1338. Longitudinal section of a cast-iron shaft. These are sometimes made of a X section.

1339. Wooden shaft with end ferrules and iron end centres.

1340, 1341, & 1342. End view and sections of ditto, solid hexagonal and hollow circular.

1343, 1344, & 1345. Arrangements of line shafting in a machine-shop or factory, with or without overhead travelling crane.

1346. Example of a line shaft, showing bearings (see Section 46), couplings (see Section 16), pulleys (see Section 3), and gearing (see Sections 3, 84).

Shafts to be used as rollers are usually made hollow of wrought iron or other metal tube, tin plate, zinc plate, or sheet iron riveted; or sometimes, as No. 1342, of wood laggings fixed to solid polygonal blocks or centres, either continuous or in short pieces fixed at intervals.

See also next Section (77).

Section 77.—SPINDLES AND CENTRES.

1347. Spindle with sunk end bearings.

1348. Spindle with one sunk bearing and one collar.

1349. Plain spindle with two loose collars. Where pedestals with loose caps are used (see Section 46) the collars may be solid with the spindle, but with a long shaft the collars should be at one end only as shown, to allow of expansion. A wheel frequently occupies the place of one or both collars, and serves the same purpose.

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1350. Coned centre, fixed.

1351. Collar centre pin or stud bolt, fixed.

1352. Coned centre for roller or similar detail, driven in place.

1353. Parallel centre for roller or similar detail, keyed in place.

1354. Square centre for crane barrel, &c. See Nos. 634 and 635.

1355 & 1356. Lathe headstock spindles, solid or hollow; sometimes made with conical and sometimes with parallel necks.

1357. Conical crane post.

1358. Conical cart axle.

1359. Universal centres, employed to allow of a machine (or part of ditto), such as a drill, to be adjusted at any possible angle, the machine being fixed to one end of bar A.

1360. Railway carriage axle. For cranked axles, see Section 10.

1361. Square neck centre bolt. The square neck prevents the bolt turning and loosening the nut.

1362. Coned and cottered crank pin or centre, sometimes secured by a nut, as No. 1350.

1363. Centre pin and bracket, adjustable to various angles.

1364 & 1365. Two methods of securing end of rod to any solid part of machine; used for steam hammer heads.

1366. Hollow post centre, with water or steam channel to allow for swivelling.

1367. Group of sleeve centres, employed to allow of several pairs of lever or wheel motions being taken independently on a single shaft.

1368. Ordinary centre pin, with nut, washer, and split pin.

1369. Ordinary centre pin, with split pin and washer.

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Section 78.—SCREW GEAR, BOLTS, &c.

1370. Square thread screw. Single, double, or multiple thread.

1371. V thread screw.

1372. Enlarged section of V thread.

1373. Strongest thread when the strain is always in one direction.

1374. Round thread screw.

1375. Geared thread, to be used with ordinary wheel teeth, the section of thread being that of a rack of the same pitch as wheel.

1376. Earth screw, screw pile, screw mooring, earth borer. See No. 530.

1377. Fixed screw, with hand wheel to revolve the nut, the screw having no rotation.

1378. Conical screw; used for chucks, &c. With two, three, or more sliding jaws chased to fit the conical thread.

1379 & 1380. Differential screws. One fixed, the other revolving, impart a motion equal to the difference of pitch of the two screws (see Section 31). See No. 1430.

1381. Screw, with half nut; the bearings of the screw being fixed act as a fulcrum for the motion of the half nut, which may be attached to any sliding device; employed for jaw chucks.

1382. Screw and worm gear, used for screw jacks, &c. The worm gears with a worm wheel having a central nut running on the main screw.

1383. Mutilated screw and nut. In one position the nut can slide on the screw, and a partial turn locks it. Used for instantaneous grip vices, &c.

1384. Spiral worm for three or four jaw chucks, expanding devices, &c.

See Sections 28 and 36.

1385, 1386, & 1387. Screw driver heads for screws.

1388 & 1389. Hexagon and square heads for ordinary spanners.

1390. Form of head requiring special spanner or pointed bar.

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1391. Cylinder head bolt, with drilled holes and special spanner.

1392. Cylinder head, but with flutes instead of holes for spanner.

1393. Cylinder head, but with two flats cut on the head to suit an ordinary spanner.

1394. Socket head, to receive a second screw.

1395. Eye bolt.

1396. Thumb screw.

1397. Thumb or shutter screw.

1398. Milled head screw.

1399. T head screw.

1400. Thumb or fly nut and screw.

1401. Hexagon collar stud to receive a nut or other female screwed fixing.

1402. Bolt head for forked spanner, used for sunk or countersunk heads.

1403. Hexagon head, with solid washer or collar.

1404. T head bolt for T grooves in castings.

1405 & 1406. Countersunk heads.

1407. Eye bolt, with flat sides and straight eye for a pin or bolt.

1408. Snap head.

1409. Hook bolt.

1410 & 1411. Lewis bolts, rag bolts.

1412. Cottered bolt.

1413, 1414, & 1415. Lewis bolts and key pieces.

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1416. Collar stud.

1417. Split spring head bolt.

1418. Hook bolt.

1419. Solid head and collar bolt, bed bolt.

1420 & 1421. Heads for bolts to slide and turn in T grooves of planing machines, &c.

1422. Countersunk bed bolt. Boiler stay.

1423, 1424, & 1425. Methods of finishing screw heads to prevent catching passing articles.

1426. Screw head, with cross dovetails to carry a key or screwing lever.

1427 & 1428. Right and left-hand screw couplings for tie rods, &c.

1429. Ring coupling for 2, 3, 4 or more rod ends for tie bracing.

1430. Right and left-hand screw couplings with halved ends to prevent the rods turning; may be made with one fine and one coarse thread for differential motion, or with right and left-hand threads.

1431. Rifling, as used in ordnance, &c., i.e. an internal multiple screw thread of very long pitch.

1432. Screw spanner; the weight prevents it working loose.

1433. Belt screw.

1434. Gib cotter bolts.

See also pipe couplings, Nos. 1071, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, and 1062, 1068, 1070.

For spiral worms and creepers, see Section 57.

Spiral pump, No. 1022.

Note that it is possible to construct a screw with an increasing or decreasing pitch, as is done with the screw propeller. See also No. 1378.

Double screw gear, No. 727.

Snail worm gear, No. 730.

Worm and crown gear, No. 733.

Worm and spiral gear, see Section 84.

Section 79.—SLIDE AND OTHER VALVE GEAR.

It would be neither easy nor useful, besides being beyond the scope of this work, to attempt to illustrate all the varieties of gear employed to work the valves of steam and other motor engines. I shall therefore only illustrate the more important types in general use, the details of which may be varied to suit individual cases.

1435. Is the ordinary slide valve gear with single eccentric for engines running always in one direction.

1436. Ordinary link motion reversing gear with two eccentrics; the link, having a shifting motion, is so arranged that either eccentric can be put into gear with the slide valve, the other eccentric running idle; or when in the mid position, as in sketch, both eccentrics run idle and the slide valve has no motion. By setting the link at intermediate positions the travel of the valve can be varied, and consequently the cut off also within certain limits.

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1437. Nicholson’s patent reversing gear, without eccentrics. The drawing explains itself. This gear cannot be run in the intermediate positions, as a link motion to vary the cut off. This limits its usefulness to simple reversing only.

1438. Automatic governor expansion for single eccentric engine; the position of the connecting rod end in the swinging link is dependent on the governor, and thus also the travel of the slide valve.

1439. Side shaft motion for operating Cornish, Corliss, and spindle valves. The valves can be driven from this shaft by cams, eccentrics, or gearing.

1440. Gab lever for throwing the eccentric out of gear and thus stopping the engine.

1441. Sector and link reversing motion for oscillating engine; sometimes a shifting eccentric is used instead of link motion, as No. 1443.

1442. Reversing sector link motion for an oscillating engine; the valve is operated from the link, the angle of which is altered by the hand lever, there is therefore no lead to the valve.

1443. Shifting eccentric and balance sometimes used for reversing instead of double eccentrics and link; the loose eccentric is carried round in either direction by a stop piece on the shaft, fixed so as to give the correct lead both ways.

1444. Murdoch’s variable expansion gear (see Mechanical World, September 29th, 1888) has one eccentric which operates a double arm lever, the outer end of which moves a sliding fulcrum along the valve rod lever, so that the leverage of the valve rod lever varies at different parts of the stroke. The sliding fulcrum is attached to a radius rod.

1445. Proell’s automatic expansion gear. Shown applied to special double beat valves, but is sometimes applied to a special throttle valve, and is then applicable to any ordinary engine. The action of the governor alters the lap of the catches upon the ends of the valve levers, thus varying the time that the valves are kept open; the catches are centered on an oscillating T lever, operated from an eccentric on the main shaft.

1446. Marshall’s valve gear, driven by one eccentric on crank shaft. The sector rocking centre is moved along the curved slot to reverse the engine, giving similar motion to the valve rod as in the case of the ordinary link reversing gear No. 1436.

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1447. The Bremmé valve gear with single eccentric; the valve rod is operated by a lever and bent connecting rod from the end of the eccentric rod; the latter is constrained to move in an arc by a three-link attachment to a fixed bearing behind the eccentric rod and a movable one at the right-hand end of the horizontal link. To reverse, the arm and sector are turned to the dotted position by the worm and hand wheel shaft.

1448. Joy’s valve gear, operated by a pin on the connecting rod. The slotted T lever is connected to the hand lever for reversing, and when reversed stands at the same angle from a vertical line but on the opposite side. The fulcrum of the valve rod lever has a sliding motion in the slot of the T lever.

1449. Variable expansion gear by hand power. There are many applications of this type used to vary the travel of a cut-off valve.

1450. Corliss valve gear, operated by a single eccentric, has two steam and two exhaust valves similar to No. 1642, worked from pins on a rocking wrist plate. The steam valves have trips, regulated by the governor, on a similar principle to No. 1445.

1451. Crank shaft governor with shifting eccentric: the centrifugal action of the weights, acting against springs, is used to revolve the inner eccentric so as to vary the throw of the main eccentric from which the slide valve is driven.

1452. Another form: in this also the throw of the eccentric is varied by the action of the governor ball.

1453. Another form of automatic governor expansion trip gear in connection with Cornish valves; a single eccentric operates the four valves, and the contacts of the catches and steam valve levers are regulated by the governor, the lower or exhaust valves having a constant motion.

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1454. Double angular slide valve for varying the cut off by a transverse motion given to the valve from outside, either by hand gear or by the governor, the valve being made wider than the valve face, as dotted lines.

1455. H. Jack’s variable expansion gear, with one eccentric. Patent No. 4167/85.

1456. Variable cut-off valve on the back of the main slide, the rod of which can be revolved by hand or from the governor to vary the opening of the cut off valves.

1457. A plan to effect the same object but by a cylindrical cut off valve.

1458. English’s expansion gear. Two eccentrics. The expansion valve has no lap, and the gear gives a constant relative motion to both valves.

1459. Tappet gear, sometimes used for water-pressure engines, &c.

Section 80.—SPRINGS.

1460. Open spiral spring for tension.

1461. Close spiral spring.

1462. Open spiral spring for compression.

1463. Open spiral spring (square thread) for compression.

1464. Double volute chair spring.

1465. Spindle-shaped open or close spiral spring for tension.

1466. Parallel open or close spiral spring with coned ends.

1467 & 1468. Volute springs.

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1469. Torsional spiral spring.

1470. Wire staple torsional spiral spring, used for hinging; the ends of the wire are bent at a right angle and driven into the wood.

1471. Fixed spring.

1472 & 1473. Sear springs.

1474. Flat spiral spring.

1475. Plate spring.

1476. Indiarubber spring for tension.

1477. Wire spring.

1478. Ribbon spring for torsion.

1479. Compound rubber disc spring.

1480. Air cushion or spring piston.

1481. Laminated plate wagon spring.

1482. Compound dished disc or bent plate spring.

1483. Loop spring.