Cylinders

Examples

• By increasing the number of cylinders the product was rapidly added to, each cylinder printing on one side 2,000 sheets per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Among these, are siphon pumps, the force pump of Ctesibius, a fire-pump, having two cylinders, and two pistons, valves, and levers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These cylinders move over stationary pistons which have orifices that allow the liquid to pass from one side of the piston to the other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The low pressure cylinders are 106 inches in diameter, the intermediate cylinders are 73. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A fire is placed under the bottom of the large cylinders, called the working cylinders; those above are called the supply cylinders. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Dutch also had substituted cylinders armed with blades in place of stampers and used their windmills to run them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This covered broadly the combination of the cutting cylinders, and rolls for holding the boards against the cutting cylinders, and also means for tongueing and grooving at one operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It consists of a series of chalk cylinders mounted on a shaft revolved by hand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The number of rollers and cylinders and the position and the length of the process to fully dry, compact, stretch and finish the sheet, may be, and are, varied greatly. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The sheets of paper are held on to the cylinders at their edges by means of tapes, and are so laid on by the workmen, that the type may be impressed on them with an equal margin all round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Formerly, the opening machines were simply cylinders armed with spikes, to which the cotton was led through nipping rollers, and then delivered in a loose, fluffy condition. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is drawn between the cylinders, which reduces the whole to an equal thickness. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This is done by passing it over large metal cylinders, heated by steam. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When these cylinders are about a quarter of an inch apart, the Electric Light appears at the end of each for the space of more than half an inch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The giant rolls were two solid cylinders, six feet in diameter and five feet long, made of cast iron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One method of producing the same effect is to make the cylinders oscillate on pivots, as contrived by Mr. Murdoch, in the first model steam carriage, made in 1784. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In the two end-pieces of a heavy iron frame were set three rolls, or cylinders--one in the centre, another below, and the other above--all three being in a vertical line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Many thousands of these cylinders are made daily. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Before the sheet of pulp has arrived at the farther extremity of the wire cloth, it passes between two cylinders, the under one of which is of metal, covered with felt, and the upper one of wood. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• At the present time the annual sales of the business phonographs and supplies, cylinders, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And as to tube and metal bending, there are wonderful machines which bend sheets of metal into great tubes, funnels, ship masts and cylinders. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The paddle wheel engines had steam cylinders 74 inches in diameter, with 14 foot stroke, and those of the screw engines were 84 inches in diameter and 4 foot stroke. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One may guess pretty safely that they painted these skins, and it has even been supposed, printed off designs upon them from bone cylinders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is a gas made from oil and compressed in storage cylinders by means of pumps for portable use. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the two end pieces of a heavy iron frame were set three rolls, or cylinders--one in the centre, another below, and the other above--all three being in a vertical line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The immense tube was lifted by chains fixed to the heads of the presses, and two steam engines, of 40-horse power each, were employed to force the water into the cylinders. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The power of the two cylinders was carried by means of spur-wheels, which continued the motive power to the wheels that supported the engine on the rails. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Under that plan, resembling the methods of 1878, the machines and blank cylinders were manufactured by the Edison Phonograph Works, which still retains its factories at Orange, New Jersey. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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