| 11. | A trunk engine locates the connecting rod " within " a large-diameter hollow piston rod.
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| 12. | More sophisticated cylinders have a body with end cover, a piston rod, and a cylinder head.
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| 13. | The company said the brake piston rod, which activated the service brakes, could bend or fracture.
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| 14. | Internal combustion engines, and in particular all current automobile engines, do not generally have piston rods.
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| 15. | A piston rod, connected vertically to the piston, extended out of the top of the cylinder.
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| 16. | Inlet steam was supplied to the top of the piston rod trunk through distinctive domed caps.
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| 17. | This is mitigated by a sliding block between the crank and the slot in the piston rod.
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| 18. | The bowstring pushed the piston rod back down as the gasses escaped and cooled, completing the cycle.
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| 19. | The high-pressure gases drive the piston rod ( which is attached to the bolt carrier ) rearward.
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| 20. | Oscillating engines had the piston rods connected directly to the crankshaft, dispensing with the need for connecting rods.
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