force pump in a sentence
Examples
- In 1689, Denis Papin had suggested that the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell could be maintained by a force pump or bellows.
- The station was equipped with two single-cylinder Crossley'N'- type gas-fired engines and two Haywood Tyler triplex lift and force pumps, capable of pumping 9, 600 gallons per hour.
- She had Crane s self-acting chain stoppers; two capstans, one on the topgallant forecastle, one on the quarterdeck; patent hold pumps; a force pump; Emerson s patent ventilators .
- In 1689, Papin suggested that a force pump or bellows could maintain the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell . ( Engineer John Smeaton utilised this design in 1789 .)
- If, on the other hand, the industry does decide to increase heating-oil supplies, this will divert some gasoline refining capacity to heating-oil production, which could force pump prices to soar again this summer.
- Hero describes a number of working machines using hydraulic power, such as the force pump, which is known from many Roman sites as having been used for raising water and in fire engines.
- Although equipped with a forcing pump and with riveted leather hose 1, 000 feet ( 300 m ) long ( all purchased 16 years earlier by Act of Congress ), there were no firefighters.
- Ctesibius described one of the first force pumps for producing a jet of water, or for lifting water from wells, and examples have been found at various Roman sites, such as at Silchester in Britain.
- It drives a 30-inch ( 762 mm ) force pump capable of lifting 2235 pounds ( 1014 kg ), or approximately one ton of water, per stroke, at a rate of 10.2 strokes a minute.
- The phrase " ram press " ( in lower case ) commonly means the same thing; it is simply used for machines that press items by a mechanical ram, such as with a plunger, piston, force pump, or hydraulic ram.