The counterweight is made adjustable by the device marked movable adjusting weight--in the drawing--which permits the quantity of entering gas to be slightly changed as the gasoline in the carburetor grows old.
The adjustment of the counterweight to suit the gas given off from old gasoline in the carburetor, and the occasional rewinding, to elevate the blower weight, is practically all the attention this plant requires.
The float which fills the greater part of the inner space is a light sheet-metal drum, that is tightly sealed and nicely balanced by a counterweight on the opposite end of the suspending bar.
In the hollow cylinder G, the counterweight moves up and down, with its chain passing over the three pulleys B, B, B, as shown in fig.
It ascends by the counterweight at the pump end of the working beam.
The counterweight may hence be lessened at pleasure, if the height of the pressing water-column n be increased.
The workman, on pushing up the door lightly, makes it rise, because there is a counterweight at the other end of each chain, which balances the weight of the frame and bricks.
The gasometer, pressing with a small unbalanced force over the counterweight s, expels it through the main u u, in communication with the pipes of distribution through the buildings or streets to be illuminated.
Were no counterweight employed, so that the gas-holder pressed with its whole weight upon the gas, then the height of the equivalent column of water in its highest position = 2.
The height of the water pressure for the highest position, without the counterweight = 3 p [pi] - 0.
Each lever works on a fulcrum or pinion as at A, and has a lower arm B for lifting the rods leading off to points or signals, and an arm C to carry a counterweight when necessary.
After the unification of China, Korea had reason for seeking an alliance with the Turks, in order to secure a new counterweight against China.
She would be advertised, as a counterweight to the hideous mistake the Germans made in immortalizing with their bullets the poor little nurse, "die Cavell.
The Japanophile Chinese have a few troops, who function in close proximity to Japanese, and are in no sense a military counterweight to the invaders.
There would be no restraint, no counterweight on the part of your various religions because subconsciously and in their quintessence they want the same.
Yuan Shih-kai, although half-afraid of him, found him at various periods useful as a counterweight to other generals in the provinces; in any case he was not the man to risk anything by attempting to crush him.
From the counterweight another rope runs over the pulley to the windlass.
When the columns are to be overthrown, their weight is balanced by the counterweight secured to the end of the rope, so that there is little shock from the fall.
Yuan Shih-kai, although half afraid of him, found him at various periods useful as a counterweight to other generals in the provinces; in any case he was not the man to risk anything by attempting to crush him.
After loading the pawls are tripped, and the greater gravity of the counterweight raises the gun to firing position again.
This cylindrical counterweight is seen raised on the left of Fig.
After the customer viewed himself to his heart’s content he merely released the mirror and it was automatically drawn back into place by a counterweight that slid in a case fastened to the wall.
He found that the counterweight fitted very closely in its case and when it dropped it forced a stream of “wind” out of a crevice which produced a whistling sound.
The link is raised and lowered by means of a lever I which is connected to one arm of a T-shaped lever J which on one side of its fulcrum is connected to the rod H and on the other to the counterweight K.
Young Ctesibius noticed that every time the mirror was released a curious whistling sound came from the case in which the counterweight moved.
Details of the counterweightcarriage in the Otis system.
The recoil following the discharge returns the gun to the loading position, the counterweight rising until the pawl engages the ratchet.
The counterweightis held in place by a pawl and ratchet.
When the gun is loaded the pawl is released and the counterweight sinks, raising the gun to the firing position above the parapet.
This, as he said, was the counterweight with which the Lord burdened him that he might not be puffed up by the great blessings which the Lord had granted him.
In spite of the fact that the esteem which was felt for Father Juan within and without the order was very great, the counterweight of humility and the consciousness of his own inferiority which he had was much greater.
