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 . n is run into a crevice. See 3466. 4. Well-tubes are packed by rubber thim-bles, inflatable bags filled with air or wa-ter, or with flaxseed, which swells as it ab-soibs water. Packing-awl. One for atwine tln-ough a packing cloth or themeshes of a hamper, in order to fasten thepackage liy a tie. Packing-bolt {Slcam-engi-iu.) A boltwliic


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 . n is run into a crevice. See 3466. 4. Well-tubes are packed by rubber thim-bles, inflatable bags filled with air or wa-ter, or with flaxseed, which swells as it ab-soibs water. Packing-awl. One for atwine tln-ough a packing cloth or themeshes of a hamper, in order to fasten thepackage liy a tie. Packing-bolt {Slcam-engi-iu.) A boltwliick secures the gland of a stulting-box. Packing-box. 1. (Slnm-enijine.) Asteam-tight composition or systems of partsaround the ]iiston-rod of au engine wliereit through the head. A stuffing-box. 2. A box for transportation of merchan-dise. Packing-press. A press for balingPackin-- cotton, wool, hay, etc. The power, screw,Awl. or preferably hydraulic, is applied to the platen from beneath, and the boxes in which thesubstance is compressed aie provided with hingesand catches so as to be readily taken apart ; theseare placed one above another on trucks with roll-ers, which are run under the press for compression. rig. J^cking-Press. See and withdrawn when the operation is Packing-ring. (Steam-engine.) A ring on apiston to expand against the inside of a cylinderand prevent passage of steam. The example shpwsa set of three rings in which the transverse jointsare kept tight by au intermediate ring with inclinededges so fitted between two packing-rings as to Fig. 3468. illllllJII


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