Hydraulic, Steam, and Hand Power Lifting and Pressing Machinery

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... INDEX. A. Accumulator, 4, 16, 90 Air valves, self-acting, 17 vessels, 3, 62 Apparatus for slinging goods, 122 Application of patent differential blocks, 173 Ascending rooms of lifts, 31, 34, 35 B. Balance-weights for lifts, 32, 178, 181, 186, 189 Barrel gear, 131-133 Belt (slack) gear, 134 Bending machine, 102 Blast furnace lifts, 142 Boat lift, hydraulic, 42, 51 Boilers, Cornish, 9, 15,110 multitubular, 15, 110 Lancashire, 9, 15 Babcock & Wilcox, 9, 15, 111 Boxes for pressing cotton, 72, 73 Brakes for lifts, 179, 188, 190 Bramah's invention of hydraulic power cranes, &c, 1 Bridge gear for swinging, 39 Brotherhood three-cylinder engine, 21, 68 Bucket lift, 187 O. Canal lifts, 42, 51 Capacity of boilers, 111 Capstan, hydraulic, 38 steam, 135 electric, 135 Carriers, grain, &c, 152 Cellar lifts, 185 Chain shears, 99 cable shearing machine, 99 of cranes, &c, 55 of hoists, 127 Charcoal conveyers, 152 Clark's patent hydraulic apparatus, 44 Coal lifts, 25 elevators, 27, 152 Compound hydraulic pumping engines, 11, 14 Cone gear, 132 Corrugating press, 101 Cost of lifting by hydraulic power, 26 steam-power, 154 hand-power, 154 barges, 43 of pumping water, 55 of coal, 128 Cotton presses (hydraulic), 72 Counter-balances, 31,60, 61,64, 67, 139, 144, 178, 181, 186,189 Crab motions, 170 Cranes, hydraulic, 18 steam, 106 portable, 111 hand-power, 157 foundry, 23, 150, 162 workshop, 163 Creepers for grain, &c, 152 D. Data of working cranes, 26 Davis's hydraulic pressing, 79 Details, hydraulic apparatus, 54, 86 O Derrick cranes, 161 legs as poles, 167 Differential accumulator, 47, 90, 91 hydraulic apparatus, 44, 90 blocks, 173 Direct-acting engines, 10,11, 12, 14 cranes, 20 Dock gate hydraulic gear, 39 Docking vessels, 49 Double-legged derrick, 167 power crane (patent), 24 ...