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always fitted with cylinder drain cocks which are opened to allow excess water and steam to escape during warm up. Cylinder drain cocks can be manual or...

rotating cylinder mechanism, they may also be called wheel guns. Before firing, cocking the revolver's hammer partially rotates the cylinder, indexing...

A cock ring is a ring worn around the penis, usually at the base. The primary purpose of wearing a cock ring is to restrict the flow of blood from the...

grooves on the cylinder. Semi-automatic pistols were just beginning to appear when Colonel Fosbery (1832–1907) devised a revolver that cocked the hammer and...

double-action revolver, with a long trigger pull serving to rotate the cylinder, cock, and release the hammer. Since the commercial trounds had the same exterior...

creepers", because three men could move one on a level track with the cylinder cocks open. B&O's president, Roy B. White, after inspecting the first one...

chainsaws and leaf blowers. The first commercial two-stroke engine involving cylinder compression is attributed to Scottish engineer Dugald Clerk, who patented...

chamber with the barrel bore for repeated firing. Each time the gun is cocked, the cylinder indexes by one chamber (for five-shooters, by 72°, for six-shooters...

the cylinder, cocks the hammer, and drops the hammer, firing the weapon. The cylinder can be removed for cleaning with the removal of the cylinder pin...

Revolver, required the user to place the hammer at half-cock to permit rotation of the cylinder to load the firearm. On such firearms, the standard practice...

revolver that uses the recoil energy of firing for cocking the hammer and revolving the cylinder, rather than using manual operations to perform these...

a gas-seal system, in which the cylinder moves forward when the gun is cocked, to close the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, providing a boost...

dented cab roof was straightened and a radio antenna was installed. The cylinder cocks were reworked, and the throttle was lapped with a new air line run to...

revolver was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a revolving cylinder with multiple chambers aligned with a single, stationary barrel. Its design...

is admitted through cold piping or into a cold cylinder) the operators need to open the cylinder cocks, which are designed to release trapped water. Once...

Huntingdon Avenue in east Baltimore. There the steam locomotive closed its cylinder cocks, took up the load, and the electric locomotive uncoupled on the fly...

Widmark was an inventive engineer and patented a design of steam operated cylinder cocks which were of great use to Avonside on articulated locomotives since...

That means that pressing the trigger was simultaneously cocking the hammer, rotating the cylinder and firing the shot. That feature, so called selfcocking...

chest, cylinder cocks and rod operating the blower, all within reach from the footboard. The 1907 single-cylinder Russells were built with cylinder bore...

as nitrogen) held tightly sealed within the cylinder. When the gun is cocked, the gas inside the cylinder gets further compressed by the piston, stores...