Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 934
erted the forked end of a lever D, having its centre of motion in a small wrought-iron column boltedto an arm projecting from the column B. From the opposite end of this lever depends the slenderrod e, connecting it immediately with the throttle-valve lever, which, by this simple construction, is… … 922 GOVERNORS. Fig. -2181 is mi example of a very excellent arrangement of the conical pendulum governor which isfrequently adopted in highly finished engines. The peculiarity of this form consists in the connecting-rod <-, being attached directly to the sliding-socket d, without the…
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