Pipes and Cylinders.—Forms of ordinary pipes and cylinders and their flanges and covers.
Shafting.—Forms of shafts and axles and of journals and pivots. Use of collars and bosses. Half-lap coupling. Box coupling. Flange coupling.
Pedestals and Plummer Blocks.—Simplest forms of pedestals and hangers for shafts. Form and arrangement of brass steps. Arrangements for fixing pedestals and for neutralising the effects of wear.
Toothed Gearing.—Forms of ordinary spur and bevil wheels. Meaning of the terms pitch, breadth of face, thickness of tooth, pitch line, rim, nave, arm. Mode of drawing bevil wheels in section.
Belt Pulleys.—Forms of belt pulleys for flat and round belts. Stepped speed cones. Drawing of pulleys with curved arms.
Cranks and Levers.—Forms of ordinary cast-iron and wrought-iron cranks and levers. Modes of fixing crank pin. Modes of fixing crank shaft. Double cranks. Form of eccentrics.
Links.—Most simple forms of connecting rod ends, open or closed. Use of steps in connecting rods. Use of cotters to tighten the steps.
Pistons.—Simple forms of piston. Use of piston packing. Modes of attaching piston rod.
Stuffing-Boxes.—Simple form of stuffing-box and gland. Use of packing. Mode of tightening gland.
Valves.—Simple conical of puppet valve. Simple slide valve. Cock or conical sliding valve.