| Description | Vacuum and Blowing Engines (36 items).
Double-acting engine with 40 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Reverse general view and plan of the engine and blowing cylinder and regulating bellows, front view of the engine and boilers, plan of the engine and boilers and blowing cylinder and regulating bellows, longitudinal and cross-sections of boiler, front view of the regulating bellows with the blowing cylinder and section of the beam near the gudgeon.
Reverse general section of the engine house (partially coloured), ground plan of the engine house and boilers, plan of the engine house and boilers and blowing apparatus etc., inside view of the lever wall, plans of the engine house taken above the cylinder and spring beams.
Plans and section of the cylinder and piston (partially coloured), plans and sections of the air pump and condenser (partially coloured), main gudgeon and gland, perpendicular steam pipes, ends of the parallel bars, little cross links, plummer block for the regulating radius and saddle plate for little perpendicular links, great perpendicular links, piston rod cap, little perpendicular links and regulating radius, end of the bolt at the top of the air pump links, ends of the air pump links, upper end of the rod that works the plug tree and air pump, pins and gudgeons, brasses of the great perpendicular links, plummer block of the main gudgeon, saddle plate at the top of the great perpendicular links - reverse drawings; side view of blowing cylinder and regulating bellows; plans and sections of the blowing cylinder, pipes and nozzles etc. - reverse drawings; parallel motions (not coded); sketch plan of the works showing railway, furnaces, forge etc.; wrapper. All the drawings except the last 3 items bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 190. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 268.
For Robert Ware Fox & Co. Abbey Iron Works, Neath, Glamorgan.
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence.
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