Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 646
y be made adjustable if necessary.The course of the water, as indicated by the arrows, is through a set of valves resting upon seatsthat radiate from a common centre, and covered in by the cap A, Fig. 3545, which is held firmly inits place by the single bolt B. As all these valves are thus… … by means of a secondary or sub-cylinder and piston, to which steam was admitted by a sub-valve, ac-tuated by the main piston at the end of the stroke. This is the plan now most extensively used, thenumerous variations and modifications of which have not changed its general character. Finally, GIG…
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