crosshead

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A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

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As of 2008, all produced low-speed engines with crosshead bearings are in-line configurations; no Vee versions have been produced. Source: Internet

Refrigeration was a two-stage process with a large Linde unit on the ground, and a crosshead compressor within the antenna. Source: Internet

Slow-speed engines are predominantly large two-stroke crosshead engines, hence very different from high- and medium-speed engines. Source: Internet

These engines typically use crosshead pistons. Source: Internet

This pin is mounted within the piston: unlike the steam engine, there is no piston rod or crosshead (except big two stroke engines). Source: Internet

To make these more compact, they avoided the steam engine's usual piston rod with separate crosshead and were instead the first engine design to place the gudgeon pin directly within the piston. Source: Internet

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