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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
than those who built it. These are two examples of elevated railways of a certain kind. The Greenwich Railway was always worked by locomotives. The Blackwall Railway was for many years worked by stationary engines and wire ropes. In 1821, Palmer, engineer to the London Dock Company, patented a railway whose single track was elevated upon pillars, which were of such lengths as to bring the track to a level or moderate inclination, notwithstanding the inequalities in the surface of the grohe platforms are elevated by a perpendicular lift operated by compressed air. In India, Australia, and some other places, it has not been unusual to cross gullies and rivers by means of a bucket or basket suspended from a cord. The patents of Palmer, Fisher, and Dick, already cited, are an amplification of this idea, a carriage being arranged to travel on a rail. The idea has recently been reduced to practice in a compact and useful form. See wire-way. El′e-vating—block. A tackle-
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
d January 30, 1866, were of number and kind as follows: — Ballard1,500Maynard20,002 Ball1,002Palmer1,001 Burnside,55,567Remington20,000 Cosmopolitan9,342Sharps80,512 Gallagher22,728Smith30,062 3. 39,136W. H. ElliotJuly 7, 1863. 40,572W. Morgenstern and E. Morwitz.Nov. 10, 1863. 41,017W. PalmerDec. 22, 1863. 44,099W. R. LandfearSept. 6, 1864. 44,127Townsend and ClementSept. 6, 1864. 4. LeavittJune 14, 1859. 25,259H. GrossAug. 30, 1859. 26,076W. H. ArnoldNov. 15, 1859. 32,887W. PalmerJuly 23, 1861. *34,922C. DragarApr. 8, 1862. *35,548N. SmithJune 10, 1862. 36,891Bostwick anRobitailleJuly 27, 1858. 21,215J. RiderAug. 17, 1858. 21,478F. BealsSept. 14, 1858. 21,623William PalmerSept. 28, 1858. 21,730T. R. AustinOct. 12, 1858. 22,412J. W. CochranDec. 28, 1858. 22,511CSept. 8, 1863. 49,687E. H. GrahamNov. 24, 1863. 41,117Briggs and HopkinsJan. 5, 1864. 41,857W. PalmerMar. 8, 1864. 42,379B. F. JoslynApr. 19, 1864. †42,688H. RevnoldsMay 10, 1864. 42,823D Willi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
is also employed in soaps and cosmetics of various kinds, imparting a sense of moisture and coolness to the surfaces where applied; and for preserving animal and vegetable preparations, not shrinking them as alcohol does. Its nonevaporability makes it useful as an ingredient in copying-ink, and by treatment with nitric acid it forms the well-known explosive intro-glycerine. Glyph. （Architecture.) Perpendicular fluting, used in the Dorie frieze. Glyph′o-graph. A name given by Mr. Palmer to his system of relief line-engraving. A thin ground of was is spread upon the plate; this is etched or cut away so as to give the design in intaglio. The ground is now covered with a film of graphite, after which metal is precipitated upon the metal in an electro-bath, giving a metallic plate with the design in relief. The copper shell is backed with lead and used as an ordinary printing surface. By a similar process the engravings which illustrate this book have been made. See re
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
coal, for instance. See duty. Pow′er-ham′mer. A hammer in which the weight is raised by the power of machinery. There are several varieties, which differ in construction or mode of application. Steam-hammer.Dead-stroke hammer. Atmospheric hammer.Tilt-hammer. Monkey.Revolving-hammer, etc. Pile-driver. See list under hammer. Fig. 3930 may stand as an example of a form of power-hammer, made of various sizes from that of heavy forging to the small hammer for jewelers. Palmer power-spring-hammer. The power is communicated by a friction pulley. The belted pulley is loose on the shaft, and the friction pulley slides on a spline on the shaft. The operator bears down with his foot upon the treadle, which passes around the hammer; this brings the friction in contact with the belted pulley, which is running all the time, and rotates the shaft, on which is a crank; this, by means of a connecting rod and spring, works the hammer, giving a blow depending for its str
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is, invented the header, which is the principal machine on the Pacific coast. 1849. Purviance made the platform removable, to convert the reaper into a mower. 1849. Platt's self-acting rake sweeping over quadrantal platform. Same feature in Palmer and Williams's and in Seymour's, 1851. 1850. Adkins's cutter-bar on hinged frame. 1850. Knowles and Bevington's side dropper. 1850. Heath's binder, with a reciprocating rake beneath the platform. 1851. Watson's automatic binder. 18rrow, low rowing vessel of war, formerly used by the English. Rem′blai. （Fortification.) The elevated portion of earthworks formed by the disposition of the deblai, or excavated materials. Re-lief′–line En-grav′ing. The process of Mr. Palmer of England, about 1840, in which a blackened copper plate is covered with a ground of a definite thickness of sulphate of lead, wax, and resin; a tracing or photographic image is transferred to the ground; the ground is cut away by gravers o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
20, 1861. 34,932WilliamsApr. 8, 1862. 38,450PalmerMay 5, 1863. 45,236FolsomNov. 29, 1864. 46,06, 1869. 109,427LandfearNov. 22, 1870. 109,655PalmerNov. 29, 1870. 110,945WoodwardJan. 10, 1871. 19, 1870. 106,092StrainAug. 2, 1870. 109,753PalmerNov. 29, 1870. 110,480LloydDec. 27, 1870. Apr. 21, 1863. 38,658DaleMay 26, 1863. 38,837PalmerJune 9, 1863. 38,927CookJune 16, 1863. 40,853 (Reissue.)6,005RoseAug. 11, 1874. 161,632PalmerApr. 6, 1875. 5. Guides. 13,275RobinsonJuly 16, 1869. 102, 294MellenApr. 26, 1870. 118,145PalmerAug. 15, 1871. 119,496BartlettOct. 3, 1871. 1g of the ordinary Sewing-Machine. No. 124,694, Palmer, March 19, 1872, machine for sewing pamphlets. No. 135,662, Palmer, February 11, 1873, booksewing-machine. The signature, held between two slottNo great improvements in speed were made until Palmer, who, according to De Quincey, was twice as grmers and Ogle, Boase and Rawe, Heaton, Napier, Palmer, Gibbs and Applegath, Church, Redmund, Squire [7 more...]
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ng, stretching, and feeding devices on opposite sides of the machine, driven in a positive manner, with facility not only for driving said devices on one side of the machine and not on the other, but of positively driving them at different velocities relatively with each other, to adjust the stretch or feed on opposite sides, as required. A roller on the delivery side at the foot of the chains stretches the fabric in its passage from the stretching-devices to the first drying-cylinder. See Palmer's patents, 88,504, March 30, 1860; 148,082, March 3, 1874; and 161,896, April 13, 1875. Tent′ure. Paper-hangings; wall-paper. Term. （Shipwrighting.) See term-piece. Battery. Ter′mi-nal. （Electro-magnetism.) The clamping-screw at each end of a voltaic battery, used for connecting it with the wires which complete the circuit. One terminal b is at the copper or negative pole, and the other a at the zinc or positive pole. Their connection by wire starts the battery int
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
tely introduced into England, is substantially similar to the elevated railways which were patented in England in 1825 by Palmer, Fisher, and Dick. See elevated Railway. An endless wire-rope is carried on a series of grooved pulleys, supported iRise. Ft.Ft. In. ColopusSchuylkillPhiladelphia34020 0SegmentWernwag1813 PiscataquaPiscataquaNew Hampshire25027 4SegmentPalmer1794 BambergRegnitzGermany20817 4SegmentWiebeking1809 TrentonDelawarePennsylvania20032 0SegmentBurr1804 WrittenghenRhinnts may be consulted:— No.Name and Year. 4,560.Von Schmidt, 1846. 47,132.Robbins, 1865. 48,636.Hamar, 1865. 49,146.Palmer, 1865. 49,382.Cooley et al., 1865. 52,046.Holmquist, 1866. 53,217.Eddy, 1866. 53,267.Buell, 1866. 54,194.Myers, 1866as a novelty. The vulcanized rubber for an elastic non-absorbing surface was the great need of the Bullman rollers. Palmer's combined wringer and mangle. Wrink′ling-ma-chine′. （Leather.) One to wrinkle transversely the upper leathers