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A chain pump is a type of water pump that uses a chain to move water from one place to another. It works on the principle of a continuous loop of chain moving through a series of sprockets, with attached buckets that lift water as the chain passes over the top sprocket and discharge it as the chain reaches the bottom.
The tariff schedule has 99 chapters under 22 sections, and various appendices for chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and intermediate chemicals for dye.Raw materials or basic substances generally appear in the early chapters and in earlier headings within a chapter, whereas highly processed goods and manufactured articles appear in later chapters and headings.
According to F. Lisheng and T. Qingjun, the hand-crank of the rotary quern was different from a crank, which was the combination of a hand-crank and a push-and-pull connecting rod by a hinge. [7] The Antikythera mechanism, dated to around 200 BC, [25] [26] used a crank as a part of its mechanism. [27]
A horizontal single-cylinder open-crank gas engine dating back to the 1920s with hot tube or spark ignition, 1.6875-inch bore and 3-inch stroke. The crankshaft was overhung, i.e. single main bearing. [66] [67] 600 A substantial horizontal single-cylinder open-crank gas (0.75 HP) or petrol (1.0 HP) engine. 2.5-inch bore, 4.5-inch stroke.
The founder of R A Lister and Company was Robert Ashton Lister, who was born in 1845. [1] He led the exhibit of the family's products to the Paris Exhibition of 1867, [2] but on return fell out with his father, [citation needed] and in the same year founded R.A.Lister and Company [3] in the former Howard's Lower Mill, Water Street in Dursley to manufacture agricultural machinery.
The Coffman engine starter (also known as a "shotgun starter") was a starting system used on many piston engines in aircraft and armored vehicles of the 1930s and 1940s. It used a cordite cartridge to move a piston, which cranked the engine.
In 1928, a new heavy range of trucks (the HS-series) built around a series of engines from Hall-Scott appeared. These engines were used by IHC for some heavy-duty applications until 1935, although their own large engines (525 cu in (8.6 L) FBD and 648 cu in (10.6 L) FEB) had appeared in 1932. [ 6 ]
A harmonic balancer (sometimes called crankshaft damper, torsional damper, or vibration damper) is the same thing as a harmonic damper except that the balancer includes a counterweight to externally balance the rotating assembly. The harmonic balancer often serves as a pulley for the accessory drive belts turning the alternator, water pump and ...