Small conical valves at each end of the cylinder, for the purpose of letting off any water that may collect above or below the piston.
In marine engines. (See cylinder escape-valves.) ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A <<Sally>>. II. Escape ·noun An <<Apophyge>>. III. Escape ·noun Leakage or outflow, as of s...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
See under their respective particular names. ...
·noun The barrel of an air or other pump. II. Cylinder ·noun Any hollow body of cylindrical form. ...
The body of a pump; any tubular part of an engine. ♦ Charge cylinder of a gun, is the part which r...
The same with escape-valves. ...
The adaptations used in a marine-engine to change the admission of the steam into, and its eduction ...
·add. ·- In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically ad...
In the steam-engine, is a metal lid with a hole in the centre for the piston-rod to work through. ...
That made upon the improved method of charring the wood to be used as charcoal in iron cylinders. Al...
See cylinder. ...
An adaptation on the top of the piston-rod, stretching out athwart the cylinder, from the ends of wh...