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• The condensers are placed at the outsides of the engine room, and the air, feed, and bilge pumps are between the engines and the condensers and worked by levers from the low-pressure engine crosshead. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
• The crosshead of the reciprocating air pump is guided by a Peaucellier linkage shown at the center. Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt
• Crossheads, or subheads as he calls them, aren't stuck into stories quixotically, nor are they really designed to be read as important parts of the copy.
• _Top left_, straight-line linkage; _top right_, crosshead and guide arrangement; _lower left_, piston rod _A_ is guided by sectors _D_ and _E_, suspended by flexible cords. Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt
• The part of the housing to which the static grinding disk is fastened is welded to a crosshead made of channel steel 60. 1. Preface
• Large metal planing machines were well known by 1830, and by midcentury crossheads and crosshead guides were used on both sides of the Atlantic in engines with and without working beams. Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt
• The crosshead is fastened to the pipe frame by means of clips which can be made either of pipe or of square steel. 1. Preface
• Trim the exterior of the door with finish carpentry such as columns and a crosshead pediment to extend the width of the door.
• As a supervisor at one local elevator-repair company and the founder, in 1973, of Century Elevator, another repair business, he says that his employees would find old crosshead plates while out on jobs. Museum Is Uplifting Visit
• One end of the bonded material was clamped to a metal ‘crosshead,’ which moved when a lead screw was turned by a geared motor.