Elementary lessons in steam machinery and the marine steam engine, with a short description of the construction of a battleship (1893)
Langmaid, Joseph, Gaisford, H · London, New York : Macmillan · leaf 217
through the exhaust pipe into thenext cylinder. Balance Piston.—It is customary in some cases to fit a smallcylinder in the casing over the slide valve in which a pistonconnected to the valve rod works. Steam acting on the underside of this piston has a constant tendency to lift the valve andso… … Fig. 85.—Section of Double Ported Slide Valve. (Page 19;.)
Steam-engines · Marine engines
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