Meaning of stuffing box | Babel Free

Definitions

An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft.

Examples

“Packing in the stuffing-boxes, through which the piston-rods pass⟳ at the end⟳ of the cylinder, and so arranged to keep⟳ the cylinders steam-tight, at times become⟳ loose or displaced, and in such conditions steam may pass⟳ with considerable violence out of the cylinder by way of the stuffing-box, giving an acoustic effect somewhat resembling that of an engine with cylinder-cocks open⟳, except that the noise heard is intermittent and not practically continuous, as when the cylinder cocks are open⟳.”

“The regulator in the dome is of the vertical grid type⟳, operated by an external pull⟳ rod connected to a transverse shaft which works through a stuffing box on the second barrel plate.”

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