Category:Packing

Pack"ing, n.

1. The act or process of one who packs.

2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. Specifically (mach.):

Defn: a substance or piece used to make a joint impervious; as: (a) a thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted Between the surfaces of a flange joint. (b) the substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod Slides. (c) a yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and Maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

3. (masonry)

Defn: same as filling. [rare in the u. S.]

4. A trick; collusion. [obs.] Bale. Cherd packing (bridge building), The arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, A post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- packing box, a stuffing box. See under stuffing. -- packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, Etc. -- packing ring. See packing, 2 (c), and illust. of piston. -- packing sheet. (a) a large cloth for packing goods. (b) a sheet Prepared for packing hydropathic patients.