A stuffing box is an assembly which is used to house a gland seal. It is used to prevent leakage of fluid, such as water or steam, between sliding or turning parts of machine elements. ==Gland== A gland is a general type of stuffing box, used to seal a rotating or reciprocating shaft against a fluid. The most common example is in the head of a tap...
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A fitting at the inboard end of the propeller shaft to keep the bearing lubricated and to keep water out of the boat.
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a device that prevents leakage along a piston, rod, propeller shaft, or other moving part that passes through a hole in a cylinder or vessel. It consists of a box or chamber made by enlarging the hole and a gland containing compressed packing. On a well being artificially lifted by means of a sucker rod pump, the polished rod operates through a stuffing box, preventing escape of oil and diverting it into a side outlet to which is connected the flow line leading to the oil and gas separator or to the field storage tank. For a bottomhole pressure test, the wireline goes through a stuffing box and lubricator, allowing the gauge to be raised and lowered against well pressure. The lubricator provides a pressure-tight grease seal in the stuffing box. ...
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A stuffing-box is a chamber packed with fluid-tight elastic material, placed up against and around the hole through which a piston-rod or shaft passes, in order to create an air-tight or steam-tight joint, such as in steam-engines etc.
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n] - a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal
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packing box noun a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal
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That portion of the pump that held the packing and now holds the mechanical seal.
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a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
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