direct-acting

[ dih-rekt-ak-ting, dahy- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

(of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.

First recorded in 1855–60

Each engine was reversed by a Brown type of direct-acting steam and hydraulic engine.

A vastly simpler form of pumping-engine without fly-wheel is the now common “direct-acting steam-pump.”

In larger vessels, as in yachts, in nearly all cases, the ordinary screw-engine is direct-acting.

In driers the direct acting engine has many advantages over the belt.

We may have the engine direct acting as above, or the power may be brought on by belting.

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