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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
djustable, and the effect of the emission of the stream of compressed air is to draw up the liquid from the Angier and Crocker's ejector. Angier and Crocker's ejector. space C, and elevate it to the surface through the space intervening betweenCrocker's ejector. space C, and elevate it to the surface through the space intervening between the tubes B and A. McKnight's water-raiser. Angier and Crocker, December 13, 1864, have a device for the same purpose. Fig. 61 shows a section of the well in which the seed-bag i (see well-tube packing) is shown. Its purpose is to prevent tCrocker, December 13, 1864, have a device for the same purpose. Fig. 61 shows a section of the well in which the seed-bag i (see well-tube packing) is shown. Its purpose is to prevent the descent of the water from above to the bottom of the well whence the supply of oil is drawn. The bulbous deflector and encircling cup are arranged for action as described in the preceding case. B is the air-descending, A the oil-ascending space.e oblique series in the plate, and determines the radial adjustment and consequently the diameter of hole bored by it. Crocker's taper auger. Counter-borer. The shanks and turned cuttingedges of the expanding bits in Fig. 439 pass through a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
indsay and Wm. Geddes of Connecticut. Varying the width of paper while the machine is in operation by forming the trough which delivers pulp to the web in two parts, sliding one over the other and varying the distance apart of the decklestraps. 1859. M. L. Keen, Roger's Ford, Pa. Paper-stock boiler for ligneous matters. Martin Nixon, Philadelphia. Boiler for treating paper-stock under pressure by the action of upward current of steam and downward current of hot alkaline solution. Crocker and Marshal, Lawrence, Mass. Combination of drying-cylinders, moistening apparatus, and calender-rolls for finishing paper. 1860. Jordan and Kiney (reissued patent). Conical grinder and case having induction and eduction pipes for rags and size. C. S. Buchanan, Ballston Spa, N. Y. Rotary boiler with cylindrical concentric strainer and hollow trunnions, for treating paper-stock. Gelston Sanford, New York. Pulper with conical ribs and serrated rubbers. A. Randel, New York. Rag-m
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cessfully made. On the 26th of May in the same year she left Savannah for Liverpool, making the trip in 22 days, during 18 of which she was propelled by steam-power From Liverpool the Savannah went to Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Cronstadt, and Arundel, and from the latter port returned to Savannah, making the passage in 25 days. The log-book of the Savannah was sent to the Navy Department in 1848. Captain Stevens Rogers died in New London in 1868. The Savannah was built by Crocker and Ficket in New York, and her engines made at Elizabethtown, N. J. In 1824, the Enterprize, under Captain Johnson, made a voyage to India, doubling the Cape of Good Hope. The Curacoa, in 1829, made several voyages between Holland and the West Indies. The screw-propeller, after being several times suggested, and well proved by John C. Stevens, of Hoboken, was more distinctly noticed when brought forward by Ericsson in 1836. Ericsson's propeller, the Francis B. Ogden, was tried on