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Design and manufacturing advantages of a diagonal web scraper piston with a spring skirt.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\D\January1920\ Scan8 | |
| Date | 4th December 1929 | |
| To BA. from E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Copy to OJ. BN.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} (struck through) HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} V.329 q. CK.{Mr Clark} ORIGINAL (stamp) D (stamp) 3 (handwritten) E6/G13/1/20.9 RE DIAGONAL WEB SCRAPER PISTON IN CAST IRON WITH SPRING SKIRT. We send you herewith drawing No. LeC.1186 shewing the above. The spring skirt is formed by cutting a horizontal slit .200" wide and a slit inclined at 7 1/2° with the vertical .125" wide. It is thought, to make the piston a more practical job, to use the stronger saws that the wider dimensions of slits allow, and at the same time the necessity for drilling in the corners is cancelled. A further advantage is that the saw for the horizontal slit is strong enough to cut the uneven section of piston wall immediately below the scraper ring, as aimed at in N.3080, which allows the most efficient use of the length dimensions of the piston. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||