Hydraulic engineering; a practical treatise on the principles of water pressure and flow and their application to the development of water power, including the calculation, design and construction of water wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants (1909)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Black, Adolph, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1866- · Chicago American School of Correspondence · leaf 133
wheel would becomeimpracticable. It is clear that the water acts both by impulse andby weight; therefore, to prevent the escape of the water before thebuckets reach their lowest position, the lower quarter of the wheel isencased in a circular breast which encloses the buckets, thus prac-tically… … 777777777777^777 Fig. 30. Breast-Wheel with Supply Controlled throniib Sizeof Orifice. ply to the wheel through regulation of the size of the orifice.In Fig. 31 the control of the supply is accomplished by means of ashuttle-gate arrangement which consists of a number of openingsJ J in the inclined…
