. The Street railway journal . Gasket^ ^ SECTION OF STUFFING BOX terior of the casing, and between the rear surface of thestuffing box and the cylinder head. This permits the stuff-ing box to move laterally relative to the casing, to com-pensate for out-of-line movement of the rod or stem, and torock on the curved face, or ball joint, to adapt itself to anyangular movement of the rod. The spacing rings at eachend of the packing work in connectionwith the packing, holding the stuffingbox out of contact with the movingparts, thus preventing wear. On Dec. i, 1906, one of these st
. The Street railway journal . Gasket^ ^ SECTION OF STUFFING BOX terior of the casing, and between the rear surface of thestuffing box and the cylinder head. This permits the stuff-ing box to move laterally relative to the casing, to com-pensate for out-of-line movement of the rod or stem, and torock on the curved face, or ball joint, to adapt itself to anyangular movement of the rod. The spacing rings at eachend of the packing work in connectionwith the packing, holding the stuffingbox out of contact with the movingparts, thus preventing wear. On Dec. i, 1906, one of these stuffingboxes was placed on the main pistonrod of a loo-hp engine in the Butter-field Power Building, Detroit. Whenthe stuffing box was applied the pistonrod was placed out of line so as to havean angular, as well as a lateral, move-ment of more than 1-16 in., and it hasbeen found that the stuffing box floatswith the rod without resistance, per-forming perfect work. In this instancethe stuffing box is packed with the SteelMill C
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