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 . rtion of the valve having a rotary Iecip-rocation derived from the oscillations of the cylinder. Fig. 3430 is an engine of this character for landuse. The power may be communicated by a leatherband over a pulley fixed on the axle of the fly-wheel,or by means of a spur-wheel and pinion. The steamis admitted through the hollow axle on one side, andwitlulrawn throu
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 . rtion of the valve having a rotary Iecip-rocation derived from the oscillations of the cylinder. Fig. 3430 is an engine of this character for landuse. The power may be communicated by a leatherband over a pulley fixed on the axle of the fly-wheel,or by means of a spur-wheel and pinion. The steamis admitted through the hollow axle on one side, andwitlulrawn through a similar hollow axle at the op-posite side of tlie cylinder. The figure gives side and front elevations, respec-tively. The top works are sup- Fig. 3431. ported by a four-column frame. Fig. 3431 is an-other form of os-cillating -cylinilerSt eam-engine,known as Joycespendulous high-pressure cylinder is in-verted and oscil-lates on its trun-nions after themanner of a pen-dulum. The pis-ton-rod is connect-ed directly to thecrank. See also ;IS-TON StEAM-ES-01XE. Fig. 3432 is atransverse view ofa low-draft riversteamboat with apair of oscillatingengines and feath- Oscillating- Cyliiuter OSCILLATIXG-PISTON STEAM-ENGINE. 1579 OSCILLATINCi-PISTON STEAM-ENGINE.
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