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 . motionthereto. Keene and Nichols operated by the expansion of air in elastictubes against rollers Journaled in a pedestal beneath the car-riage. Hallette improved the valve. Taylor and Condor used magnetic power to connect thetraveling piston and the carriage. See Almospheric R TIxe application of compressed air to driving the machineryof a locomotive d
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 . motionthereto. Keene and Nichols operated by the expansion of air in elastictubes against rollers Journaled in a pedestal beneath the car-riage. Hallette improved the valve. Taylor and Condor used magnetic power to connect thetraveling piston and the carriage. See Almospheric R TIxe application of compressed air to driving the machineryof a locomotive does not constitute the line an as ordinarily understood. See Air-enouje; Air-ESGiNE, Compressed. See also Pneumatic Tube. Pneu-matic Spring. Air confined in bags andused as a spring in airriagcs is specified in the Eiig-lisli patent of Walker and Mills, July 3, 18-15. It has been used to receive the recoil of a gun infiring, to arrest the blow of a reciprocating bed in aprinting-press, and in many other positions. Fig. 3-S52 represents its adaptation to a car-spring. Air iscontined in the upper part of the chamber, and acts as a springwhen torce is applied upon the surface of tae water in the V Fig. Pneumatic Car-Spring. other chamber. The water extends below the piston, and en-ters by openings to the in?ide nf the picking-rings, which arethereby Iriven against the inside surface of the cylinder. Fig. ;;5 shows a modified form. The plunger reciprocatesTertically in the central cylinder, which is surrounded by an
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