From far behind him, he could hear the faint sound of the walking beam pump.

The engineering term for this type of mechanism is a walking beam.

Let rings hang at equal levels on either side of the walking beam.

At the press end of the oven, the walking beam lowers the parts onto a table.

The walking beam raises the blanks off the table and moves them forward.

A walking beam moved up and down, driven by husky Islanders.

Video of the operation of a walking beam steam engine.

Walking beam is supported by Samson post and saddle bearing.

They retreated past the towering walking beam to the paddle-wheel guards.

Not much is known about the specifications of the steamboat but its length was 198 feet and it used a walking beam engine.

It is likely that the pump handcar, with a reciprocating walking beam, came later.

Walking beam engines remained popular with American shipping lines and excursion operations right into the early 20th century.

A c-clamp attached to the walking beam to prevent the web from sliding can be helpful.

Carry sling to walking beam and hang over the top of the beam.

The conversion added the walking beams to the ends of the original truck beam axle.

Thus, one may have a horizontal direct-acting engine, or an inverted walking beam, and so on.

The featured exhibit was a gigantic, 1500horsepower steam engine with two vertical walking beams standing parallel.

The crank arm is connected to the walking beam by means of pitman arm.

He walked with an odd rocking motion, his shoulders dipping up and down like the walking beam of a steam engine.

Fourble boards should not be lowered unti the walking beam is immobilized.

In one sonar recording the engine's walking beam and a large section of the guard from a paddle wheel could be detected.

Perform visual inspection to determine if any movement of the counterweights and/or walking beam has occurred during servicing.

With this type of engine, as well as the more common walking beam type, there were special mechanical dangers.

Her walking beam engine was originally powered by coal-fired boilers that were converted to oil in 1905.

The hydraulically actuated walking beam advances the parts thorugh the oven.

How do you like this magnificent hand built, scale model working beam engine?

The clouds which followed the Paths of the two working Beams seemed to flow away from the tips, making a great X-shape in the sky.

Levant in Steam St Just Spectacular cliff top location for this beautifully resorted engine house complete with working beam engine.

The London Museum of Water & Steam houses the world's largest working beam engine, and its narrow cuboid tower is an emblem of the town.

Fimalo said: "When the Red King saw that the Algul would fall to you, he understood that die working Beams would regenerate."

He proposed a modification of the Watt linkage to refine its accuracy but found that he would have to more than double the length of the working beam.

It was arranged with a vertical steam cylinder located beneath one end of a large pivoted working beam and a vertical plunger-type pump beneath the other end.

Part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, it stars in the series as Tressiders Mill and is home to Cornwall's only working beam engine.

Large metal planing machines were well known by 1830, and by midcentury crossheads and crosshead guides were used on both sides of the Atlantic in engines with and without working beams.

This horizontally oriented engine allowed the crankshaft and piston rod to work closely together at one end of the machine, thus reducing the need for a heavy working beam like those required for conventional engines.

However, recent experience with the MEGAPIE liquid metal neutron spallation source tested at the Paul Scherrer Institute has demonstrated a working beam window under a 0.78 MW intense proton beam.

The length of each oscillating link of the straight-line linkage was thus reduced to one-fourth instead of one-half the beam length, and the entire mechanism could be constructed so that it would not extend beyond the end of the working beam.

It contains an operational Boulton & Watt steam engine dating from 1812 that is claimed to be the oldest working beam engine in the world in its original engine house and capable of doing the job for which it was installed.

Heavy, flat chains were secured to a sector at each end of the working beam and to the engine and pump piston rods in such a way that the rods were always tangent to a circle whose center was at the beam pivot.

That eventually those two working Beams would 607 THE WHITE LANDS OF EMPATHICA re-create the other Beams, knitting them forth mile by mile and wheel by wheel.

The Museum houses the world's largest collection of Cornish cycle beam engines, including the largest working beam engine, the Grand Junction 90 inch, which has a cylinder diameter of 90 inches and was used to pump water to London for 98 years.