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Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . j.) A plate laid in-side the cover of a book when placed in the stand-ing-jiress. Inside-tool. (JVood-turning.) For hollowingout work ami liittoniing holes. Insoles. A thiiknessof cork, felt, flannel, leath-er, ]iaiier, etc., jilareil iirside a shoe to protect the soleof the foot, or to ii]i|irove the fit of the shoe. Suppose one s short. —They put cork solea within the heels of her Alexis; quoted by Athen^us, a. d. 220. In-stan-tane-ous Gener-at-or. A form ofsteani-lioiler or generator, in which a .small body ofwatei- is injected at a time into a highly heatetl ves-sel, Hashing into steam innnediately. It ditlers from Fig. 2684. pump 0. Means of escape for the expanded steamare afforded by a valve working on the frame p whenthe piston has completed its upward stroke. In Danfords steam-generator (D, Fig. 2685) a isa spherical vessel, into which water is injected in aspray through pipe c c by the force pump g. d apipe through which superfluous water is blown oil Fig. 2685. In^tantanfotts Generator. ordinary boilers in there being no unvaporized waterin the boiler. In most tliere is no steam-chest,and the theory has been to injiCt at each time a are sub-merged for the greater portion of their length in abath of molten lead. The row of vertical pipes wassupplied by water trickling from a pipe above,somewliat as in Fig. 2684, in


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