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of the emission of the stream of compressed air is to draw up the liquid from the Angier and Crocker's ejector. Angier and Crocker's ejector. space C, and elevate it to the surface through the space intervening between the tubes B and A. McKnight's water-raiser. Angier and Crocker, December 13, 1864, have a device for the same purpose. Fig. 61 shows a section of the well in which the seed-bag i (see well-tube packing) is shown. Its purpose is to prevent the descent of the water froater moved by it, and in the preceding cases the air and oil were annular adjacent films. The double set of pipes in the case under consideration and in the next following are not so convenient in shafts of great depth and minimum diameter. McKNIGHT, November 1, 1864. Fig. 63. This is an ejector like the former, but adapted to a position where a lower chamber A is not fatal to its application. The air or steam pipe C B recurves upwardly and penetrates the throat of the eduction-pipe D, whi