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Definition of Lubricators
1. lubricator [n] - See also: lubricator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lubricators
Literary usage of Lubricators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
""Water-displacement lubricators depend for their action on ... on top and overflows
into a in the bottom of the resr lubricators depend for of steam in the ..."
2. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1914)
"lubricators.* Q. 1.—If a cylinder lubricator would not work, what should be done?
A.—The lubricator should be disconnected and the cylinders oiled through ..."
3. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"Hydrostatic lubricators. — The most common method of cylinder lubrication is by
means of hydrostatic lubricators of the sight-feed class, Fig. 538. ..."
4. New Brunswick Equity Cases: Being a Selection of Hitherto Unreported Cases by New Brunswick Supreme Court, Walter Harley Trueman (1898)
"alleged and charged that all lubricators manufactured and sold by the defendants
since the date of the agreement were in fact, substance, and in truth his ..."
5. The Locomotive Up to Date by Charles McShane (1899)
"lubricators. The locomotive lubricator has almost entirely replaced the old style
... lubricators are made in various forms, some supplying oil to the steam ..."
6. Lubrication and Lubricants: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of by Leonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley (1907)
"Although the old forms of lubricators are being dispensed with to a large ...
Needle, siphon, and drop-feed lubricators are largely- used for these and ..."
7. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"Up-drop lubricators are so named from the fact that the oil on its way to the
oil pipes flows upwards, drop by drop, through the water in the feed-tubes. ..."
8. Steam Engines: Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin by Edward Marvin Shealy (1919)
"lubricators.—Cylinder oil is forced into the steam line by means of a lubricator.
These are of two kinds: hydrostatic lubricators and mechanically operated ..."
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