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 248
behindthe piston e is also connected through pipe i to the waste-valve D.This is a balanced valve, held closed by means of the spring P; whilethe water-pressure in the penstock, communicated through pipe r, andacting behind the piston n, tends to open the waste-valve. The forceof the spring P can… … Fig. 120. Diagrammatic Representation of LombardPressure-Relief Valve. IGO WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT stock rising above the normal to the pressure for which the spring Pis set, the piston n will open the waste-valve, which will relieve thepressure behind the relief-valve piston c, and allow the…
