Valve setting: simple methods of setting the plain slide valve. Meyer cut-off. Corliss. and poppet types
A 1908 practical manual by Hubert E. Collins, published in New York by Hill Publishing, instructing American engineers and machinists in setting slide, Meyer cut-off, Corliss, and poppet valves on steam engines. Line engravings show sectioned cylinders and valve chests with hatched cutaways, linkage diagrams with pivots and eccentrics, and lettered part keys usable as technical ornament or pattern stock.
