Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 524
, to compensate forthe reversing action of the levers. For whereas, when upon one side of the shaft they caused the valveto move in the same direction as themselves by means of the eccentric-rods, now that the levers areintroduced, the eccentrics must themselves move in an opposite direction, to… … Fig. 1455 is intended to illustrate the valve connection of the common locomotive, in which the motion of the eccentric is communicated through levers to the valve, and generally with an increase ofthrow. In this figure we have the cylinder face, with the valve upon it, at one end of its…
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