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 364
blnst-pipe—which are only hnlf the mdth of the valve—are closed, the other valve S opens, andthe remaining vapor escapes through the pipes X, cast on the steam-chest, to the pipe Y, leading to thecondenser Z. As the expansion at each stroke commences at the face of the cut-off slides,… … pose of displacing the steam which would otherwise collect at each stroke in the valve-chest. The air-pmnp a, is of the ordinary construction: it is bolted on to the condenser, and is worked by the same ec-centric which works the expansion valves. The piston steam-sUdes, S T and U, are worked by…
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