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Water jacket

noun

A container filled with water that surrounds a machine to cool it; especially that surrounding the cylinder block of an engine.

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"Water jacket" Quotes from Famous Books

... brass water back is placed on the fire pot of a stove or furnace. A separate stove with the fire pot and water jacket is used. A coil of steam pipe is placed inside a hot-water boiler or tank. Gas coil heaters are connected with hot water storage tank, also gas coil instantaneous heaters are ...

— Elements of Plumbing • Samuel Dibble

... firmly clamped down. Then the taps A and C are opened, and B closed. When the burette is filled with soda solution half-way up the funnel Y, A and C are closed, and B opened. The arrows show the inlet and outlet for the cooling water that is kept running through the water jacket round the nitrometer tube. To collect the gas, raise the nitrometer off the rubber stopper, and place the gas tube from the decomposition apparatus in the glass dish W and under ...

— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford

... heavier gun is a belt-fed machine, capable of firing 600 shots a minute. Although it is water-cooled, it weighs, water jacket and all, only 28 pounds. For airplane work, where the firing is in bursts and the speed of the machine helps cool the gun, the jacket is discarded and the ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer