single-acting

Historical Examples of single-acting

• By single-acting is meant that the air cylinders compress their respective volumes of air once every revolution.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891

  Various

• This differs from the one just described chiefly in that it is single-acting, while the other is double-acting.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891

  Various

• The double-acting engine, unlike the single-acting pumping engine, required a piston rod that would push as well as pull.

  Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt

  Eugene S. Ferguson

• A chain from the piston-rod to the arch head, as described in the single-acting engine, would fail to transmit this force.

  The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition)

  Dionysius Lardner

• The piston will, therefore, be pressed downwards by the action of the steam above it, as in the single-acting engine.

  The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition)

  Dionysius Lardner