Hydraulic motors, with related subjects, including centrifugal pumps, pipes, and open channels, designed as a text-book for engineering schools (1905)
Church, Irving Porter, 1851-1931 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons; [etc, ] · leaf 258
ine suppliedby a long penstock when the head is not too great and freezingcan be prevented. With impulse-wheels supplied through a longpenstock the rate at which water is used by the wheel (Pelton,for instance) is sometimes varied by the use of a deflecting-nozzle through whose lateral or downward… … Fig. 99 213 214 HYDRAULIC MOTORS. § 132. each bucket are caused to separate more or less by the action ofthe governor, and the same object is thus accomplished; a por-tion of the jet passing between the two parts of the bucket andwithout action on it. In this way there is no checking of thevelocity…
Hydraulic machinery
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