Table-engine

A table engine is a variety of stationary steam engine where the cylinder is placed on top of a table-shaped base, the legs of which stand on the baseplate which locates the crankshaft bearings. The piston rod protrudes from the top of the cylinder and has fixed to it a cross-head which runs in slides attached to, and rising from, the cylinder top. Long rods connect the crosshead to the crankshaft, on which is fixed the flywheel.

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This pattern engine was first introduced by James Sadler in the Portsmouth Block Mills and was house-built in that its framing was fixed to the engine house.

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James Sadler - Portsmouth Block Mills

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Henry Maudslay patented an improved version of this a few years later, and other makers adopted the configuration.

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It was supplied for low-speed, low-power applications around the first half of the nineteenth century.

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