Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering . ed to the oil, which would other-wise be forced up all at once to the burner by the pressure ofthe spiral spring. This, therefore, is the regulator for the supplyof oil, and must be so proportioned in length and bore to theforce of the spring, as to admit of a constant excess of oil flowingto the wick and over the sides of the burner, where it is caughtin a receptacle and carried back into the oil vessel at the foot ofthe lamp. The lamp is filled with oil by slightly raising thewhole interior portion from L, and pouri
Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering . ed to the oil, which would other-wise be forced up all at once to the burner by the pressure ofthe spiral spring. This, therefore, is the regulator for the supplyof oil, and must be so proportioned in length and bore to theforce of the spring, as to admit of a constant excess of oil flowingto the wick and over the sides of the burner, where it is caughtin a receptacle and carried back into the oil vessel at the foot ofthe lamp. The lamp is filled with oil by slightly raising thewhole interior portion from L, and pouring oil through the stemto the cistern below; the oil then rests in the first instance onthe top of the piston. The whole interior portion of the lamp isthen wound up by the key IK and the rack-work L, until the topof the cistern prevents the piston B from ascending higher. Thetube D and the burner, <fec, attached to it is then pushed down bythe hand through the stuffing-box until it attains its original po-sition. The oil which was previously above, having passed I! 1 11 if\\\\\\L j
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