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79. GILLETT, W. S., Upper Harley Street — Inventor.
Models of a system of thin rings or discs of metal, which being conical or disked, may by pressure be shortened, and thereby extended either inwards or outwards; applicable to pistons, stuffing-boxes, and other similar purposes; also to the construction of hollow cylinders to bear pressure from within.
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