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Definition of Stuffing box
1. Noun. A small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stuffing Box
Literary usage of Stuffing box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1917)
"This wrench has met all requirements as a suitable tool for the stuffing box on
the flag staff of a tin meter. The concave feature at the jaws of the wrench ..."
2. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1893)
"to guide the parts connected by the piston rod by the piston and slide block
only, and to construct the stuffing-box so as to permit a small lateral ..."
3. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1891)
"to guide the parts connected by the piston rod by the piston and slide block
only, and to construct the stuffing-box so as to permit a small lateral ..."
4. The Mining Magazine (1855)
"8 spindles and arches for throttle valve; 2 pedestal guides for plug-rods; 8
glands for throttle valve stuffing box ; IS bolts for caps for do.; ..."
5. Machinery (1902)
"The trouble must therefore be with the stuffing box K. Fig. ... 5 Firm I wanted
to know if the stuffing box next to the cylinder was in line with the ..."
6. The Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1897)
"The Stuffing-box.—The hole through which the piston-rod must pass steam-tight
... The combination which is used for this purpose is called a stuffing-box. ..."
7. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1842)
"275 represents a short brass or copper tube, with a stuffing-box fitted to its
upper end : the lower end is soldered to a pipe proceeding from a reservoir, ..."
8. A Treatise on the Steam Engine in Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam by John Bourne, Artizan Club (London, England) (1851)
"292. represents the stuffing-box of the Don Juan steamer, cylinder 68 inches
diameter. This appears to us better than that of the West India packets : there ..."
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