Injector
[ɪn'dʒektə] or [ɪn'dʒɛktɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.).
Typist: Montague--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, injects.
(n.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.
Editor: Samantha
Examples
- Among other important improvements in the steam engine are those for replenishing the water in the boiler, and the Giffard Injector is the simplest and most ingenious of all boiler feeds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Giffard Injector takes a jet of steam from the boiler, and causes it to lift the water in an external pipe, and blow it directly into the boiler against its own pressure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Prior to the Giffard Injector, steam boilers were supplied with water usually by steam pumps, which forced the water into the boiler against the pressure of the steam. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Fig. 83 shows the application of the injector to locomotives, which are now almost universally supplied with this device. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That modern form of pump known as the _injector_, has many uses in the arts and manufactures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Nora