NOUN
- a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal
How To Use stuffing box In A Sentence
- _ -- Watt being a mathematical instrument maker, was requested to repair an old engine used by some students of Glasgow University; having finished the repairs, and in working this model (the best type of the atmospheric engine), he found and proved by many and various experiments, that an enormous waste of fuel was absolutely necessary in working the engine; he found great difficulty in keeping the air from entering the cylinder, and the cylinder top was so exposed to the atmosphere that the steam was much condensed when it entered the cylinder, and he came to the conclusion to put a cover on the top of the cylinder, and allow the piston-rod to play in a hole in the cover with a gland and stuffing box, and _to press down the piston with steam instead of the atmosphere_. The Stoker's Catechism
- The stuffing box is machined relative to the seat minimizing seat and external leakage simultaneously.
- Gland Eye Bolts: Eyebolts swing aside for ease in repacking the stuffing box.
