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the axis of the wheel, together with the pinion C, which carries the wheels D and E; and E carries the chain F, which turns the spit. The wheel AB should be placed in the narrow part of the chimney, where the motion of the smoke is swiftest, and where also the greatest part of it must strike upon the sails.—The force of this machine depends on the draught of the chimney, and the strength of the fire.
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Smoke-jack is an engine used for the same purpose as the common jack; and is so called from its being moved by means of the smoke, or rarefied air, ascending the chimney, and striking against the sails of the horizontal wheel AB (plate XXI. fig 1.), which being inclined to the horizon, is moved about
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Earlier jacks of this type had a train of two arbors (spindles), later ones had a more efficient three arbor train. In the case of British examples, almost without exception, the governor or flywheel was set above the engine (as opposed to being located within the frame) and to one side; to the right
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A great majority of the jacks used prior to the 19th century were powered by a descending weight, often made of stone or iron, sometimes of lead. Although most commonly referred to as spit engines or jacks, these were also termed weight or clock jacks (clock jacks was the more common term in North
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Smoke-jacks are sometimes moved by means of spiral flyers coiling about a vertical axle; and at other times by a vertical wheel with sails like the float-boards of a mill: but the above is the more customary
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European jacks are characterised by a flywheel set centrally and often within the frame; commonly the highest part of the frame has a bell-like arch that the shaft for the flywheel passes through.
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in a brass shell, shaped like a bottle; it was introduced in the late 18th Century and in many cases replaced the earlier and much more simple dangle spit.
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Schinto, Jeanne (1 February 2004). "The Clockwork Roasting Jack, or How Technology Entered the Kitchen".
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A steam-powered roasting jack was first described by the Ottoman polymath and engineer
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linked to the spit by belts and pulleys. Other forms of roasting jacks included the
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Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850
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Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins
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A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive
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with four vanes. Smoke-jacks were also illustrated in
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for two train and to the left for three train engines.
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Jobe, Brock; Sullivan, Gary R.; O'Brien, Jack (2009).
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For the bottle-shaped hydraulic lifting device, see
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Index

Turnspit
Jack (device) § Bottle jack

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
spit
turnspit dog
Tudor period
treadmill
Taqi al-Din
United States

Leonardo da Vinci
turbine
Vittorio Zonca
Bottle jack
clockwork motor
Rotisserie
List of cooking appliances
History of steam engine
Ogilvie, John
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language
"turnspit"


doi
10.1525/gfc.2004.4.1.33
S2CID
114222732

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