| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (52 items).
575. Hebburn Colliery. Jul., Sep., Oct. 1797, Mar., May 1798, Jan. 1799. 52 items.
Double-acting engine with 63 inch cylinder, 8½ foot stroke, parallel motion, unequal beam, separate air pump beam.
Coloured original and reverse general view of the engine, plan and sections of the engine and boilers; reverse sections of the engine house (the longitudinal section has a section of the inner and outer pump pits attached, plans of half the engine house and 1 boiler, reverse sections of the boiler, reverse plans of the engine house marked "This fair copy made Sep. 1827".
Inner and outer end saddle plates, gudgeons and plummer blocks (marked "Drawn by Mr. Porden upside down"), air pump beam gudgeons and plummer block, sockets and pins for the king posts, dead plates, fire doors and frame, plan and side view of the working beam, piston rod cap, parallel and diagonal braces, parallel motion components (perpendicular links, regulating radius etc.), beam straps, connecting links, sheet of various gudgeons and plummer blocks (original drawing also), ends of the pump rod, views of the V bob (partially coloured), air pump bucket rod cap, V bob plummer blocks, air pump and condenser (marked "The air pump and condenser were on separate papers on the original copies, being torn & beastified this new edition was made 1810 - W. C. [William Creighton]") - reverse drawings; situation of the pumps - 2 small press copy drawings; injection gear - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse plan and side view; parts of the working gear - original and reverse drawings; nozzles, air pump beam - reverse drawings; working gear - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; coloured original of working gear, small coloured original and reverse drawing of slider, coloured original of injection gear, memorandum describing the working and injection gear - these drawings were sent to Hebburn; front view and section of the pit showing the V bob - coloured original and reverse drawings; view of the opening for the V bob; 2nd working gear - reverse front and side views; small plan of the pit marked "from Mr. King 15 Jul. 1797". Almost all the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 285. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 290.
For the proprietors of Hebburn Colliery - Messrs. Peareth, Wren, Wade and General Hales. Hebburn Colliery, Co. Durham.
Published references: Dickinson & Jenkins, p. 144, 176, 185, 201, 213, plate XXVIII - general view of the engine, plate XLVI - nozzle.
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