stuffing box in a sentence

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1. This now required a stuffing box to seal around the piston rod, and for the piston rod to be machined smooth and accurately cylindrical.
2. The steam engine's general use of an enclosed cylinder, nearly always double-acting, made it dependent on the stuffing box and so the piston rod.
3. A cable made of steel occasionally, fibreglass called a bridle, connects the horse head to the polished rod, a piston that passes through the stuffing box.
4. The rest earn more now, having graduated from such jobs as stuffing boxes with rags to the more skilled work of making specially coated sterilized cloths.
5. In a common type of stuffing box, rings of braided fiber, known as shaft packing or gland packing, form a seal between the shaft and the stuffing box.
6. In a common type of stuffing box, rings of braided fiber, known as shaft packing or gland packing, form a seal between the shaft and the stuffing box.
7. The cables for the telephone and to provide electricity for the lamp were sealed inside a rubber hose, which entered the body of the Bathysphere through a stuffing box.
8. Things have improved in recent years, but the somewhat restricted space available in " old " DIN and ASME-standardized stuffing boxes places limits on the type of seal that fits.
9. After intelligence officers finished searching the training camp, Marines began stuffing boxes and plastic bags with military IDs, pickaxes, Qurans, old uniforms, gas masks and a couple of soccer uniforms.
10. The saildrive has several advantages over the traditional sailboat transmission : smaller horizontal size, no stuffing box to maintain, and the propeller is mounted horizontally instead of at a downward angle.