The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 23
Supposing de also to represent the stroke of the piston, and thatthe ])iston is on the top stroke, then hd and bf are the respectiveIHisitionsof the crank and eccentric; for the slide, instead of occu-pying its central position, when the piston is at the end of itsstroke (as in Case 1), must be set… … When the eccentric has advanced from / to c, the crank willliave reached the point g; the piston is therefore at a when theport ce is fully open, the slide being then in the position fig. G. Again,—when the eccentric has reached the point/;, thejiortcfwill be re-closed (fig. .5), and i will be the…
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