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    A stuffing box or gland package is an assembly which is used to house a gland seal. It is used to prevent leakage of fluid, such as water or steam, between...
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  • elections by first-past-the-post.[citation needed] Ballot stuffing, or "ballot-box stuffing", is the illegal practice of one person submitting multiple...
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    Stove Top is a stuffing that was introduced by General Foods in 1972. It is a quick cooking ("instant") stuffing that is available in supermarkets. Unlike...
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    steam engine introduced an enclosed upper cylinder. This now required a stuffing box to seal around the piston rod, and for the piston rod to be machined...
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    bilge. This water may be from rough seas, rain, leaks in the hull or stuffing box, or other interior spillage. The collected water must be pumped out to...
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    via a stuffing box. The saildrive has several advantages over the traditional sailboat transmission: smaller horizontal size, no stuffing box to maintain...
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    times, preventing bearing movement above the stuffing box. A combination of the polished rod and stuffing box is employed to maintain an effective liquid...
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    the horse head to the polished rod, a piston that passes through the stuffing box. The cranks themselves also produce counterbalance due to their weight...
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    seal Face seal Plug Radial shaft seal Trap (plumbing) (siphon trap) Stuffing box (mechanical packing) Wiper seal Dry gas seal Leakage (chemistry) Wikimedia...
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    while the bearings are outside the sump. This style of pump uses no stuffing box to seal the shaft but instead utilizes a "throttle bushing". A common...
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    pumping too fast leads to the pump rods buckling, making the seal of the stuffing box leak and wearing through the wall of the rising main (UK) or the drop-pipe...
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    A stuffing box or packing is used to seal the joint between the vessel where the medium is transferred and the plunger or piston. A stuffing box may...
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    replaced journal bearings for interchange Rotation around a fixed axis Stuffing box Timmis system, an early form of coil spring used on railway axles. Train...
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    and test methods. GOST 8752-79. CIS standard for rotary shaft seals. Stuffing box Gland seal "GFS Rotary Seals". Gallagher Seals. Retrieved 5 August 2021...
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    located outside the pressurized volume. In some cases, a rod through a stuffing box can be used to operate a switch, but this creates high drag and has a...
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  • and piston rod, suction valve and discharge valve with their seats, stuffing box (only in double-acting pumps), gland (only in double-acting pumps), pulsation...
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    driving machinery inside, passing through at least one shaft seal or stuffing box where it intersects the hull. The thrust, the axial force generated by...
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    the cylinder for the piston rod, and this is fitted with a gland or "stuffing box" to prevent escape of the working fluid. Double-acting cylinders are...
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    in the first half of the 20th century for medium speed applications. Stuffing box: A sealing system used to keep fluid from leaking out of a pressurized...
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    Ukraine, which are transparent to prevent pre-stuffing the box with fake ballots Small (mobile) ballot box in Ukraine, for voting outside of polling station...
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    that will bend the shaft or cause uneven wear. The inboard end has a stuffing box that prevents water from entering the hull along the tube. Some early...
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    inside a rubber hose, which entered the body of the Bathysphere through a stuffing box. After the initial version of the sphere had been cast in June 1929,...
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    reliability. The magnetic coupling has several advantages over a traditional stuffing box. Some aquariums use magnetic drive pumps, which have a magnetic coupling...
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    always the same diameter allowing for a single unmoving primary barrier (stuffing box or stripper), snubbing uses a pipe, which will have an enlarged collar...
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  • telescopic suspension forks for motorcycles and bicycles. Gland (engineering) Stuffing box Fitch, E. C. (2013). Proactive Maintenance for Mechanical Systems. p...
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  • sensors, vibrations sensors, and proximity probes. Seal (mechanical) Stuffing box Abubakar, I J (2016), Constitutive Modelling of Elastomeric Seal Material...
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  • box and a plentiful volume was important for cooling purposes too. Although lignum vitae wood was used for the radial stave bearings in the stuffing box...
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    of the Order of St Olav Balanced Slid-Valve: July 4, 1882 - US260612 Stuffing Box: August 5, 1890 - US433824 Water Heater: December 30, 1890 - US443797...
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  • run immersed in water, allowing its use outboard of the stern gland or stuffing box. Stave bearings are also well suited to applications such as rudder shafts...
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    somewhat restricted space available in "old" DIN and ASME-standardized stuffing boxes places limits on the type of seal that fits. Unless the pump user upgrades...
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