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bellows
manx 

jersey devil 
bambi 

is he going to give me a stronger 
bug if he's determined to knock me out ... 

enclosing an approximately airtight cavity which can be expanded and contracted

a valve allowing air to fill the cavity when expanded, and with a tube through which the air is forced out in a stream when the cavity is compressed.^[1] It has many applications, in particular blowing on a fire to supply it with air

For example, the light-tight (but not airtight) bag allowing the distance between the lens and film of a folding photographic camera to be varied


Axial Dynamics bellow types

bloomery furnaces producing wrought iron

In modern industry, reciprocating bellows are usually replaced with motorised blowers

fireplace bellows
but made with a two-section accordion, allowing for two chambers separated by a central divider. They are mounted by the middle paddle, and air is drawn in through the bottom chamber, then forced into the upper, which has a constant rate of exhaust due to a weight or spring pushing down

Double-acting piston bellows are a type of bellows used by blacksmiths and smelters to increase the air flow going into the forge, with the property that air is blown out on both strokes of the handle

These bellows blow a more constant, and thus stronger, blast than simple bellows

anaesthetic machines cuckoo clocks

reed organ harmonium musette de cour 
A sylphon, or bellows, is used, among other purposes, to transfer motion through the wall of a vacuum chamber. It can be used as a squeeze piston for simple pumps. It can also be used as a flexible coupling to transfer rotary motion between shafts





A revived Fulton Bellows breathes new life into Knoxville industry


You can hear it from the Third Creek Bike Trail, a low roar and sometimes the sound of huffing, like a panting giant. Inside the old building it's only louder, as hundreds of men and women tend large machines that pull and shape and stamp and spit