. Machinery and processes of the industrial arts, and apparatus of the exact sciences. ally, like the last, as a feeder and ameter, cannot be well described without the assistance of a diagram. Itis shown in section in the accompanying figure 76. In the interior of thevessel are seen two floats, a large one D and a smaller one D. Thefloat D, in the condition of things shown, is maintained in its position,notwithstanding the rising of the level of the water, by the lever E, towhich it is attached, and which is checked by the catch at the heel ofthe lever E, which detains it at the point I. Thes
. Machinery and processes of the industrial arts, and apparatus of the exact sciences. ally, like the last, as a feeder and ameter, cannot be well described without the assistance of a diagram. Itis shown in section in the accompanying figure 76. In the interior of thevessel are seen two floats, a large one D and a smaller one D. Thefloat D, in the condition of things shown, is maintained in its position,notwithstanding the rising of the level of the water, by the lever E, towhich it is attached, and which is checked by the catch at the heel ofthe lever E, which detains it at the point I. These arrangements willbe more clearly understood by reference to the enlarged Fig. 77. Thelever E acts upon another lever by a connection at E, which second lever,in the position represented, lifts- the valve K, being pivoted at a point 234 PAEIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION. not lettered, above E. This same lever is capable also, when lifted bythe lever E, of opening the valve L, and of closing the little valve notlettered, further to the right. This last valve is an air escape and Fig-. wmtP
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