Locomotive engine running and management : a treatise on locomotive engines, showing their performance in running different kinds of trains with economy and dispatch; also directions regarding the care, management, and repairs of locomotives and all their connections (1888)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 257
his invention was not extravagantly paid for. The capability which the link possesses of varyingthe steam admission and release, did not appear to beunderstood by the inventor ; nor was the mechanicalworld aware, for some time after the link was broughtinto use, that it could be employed to adjust… … ^.•r link is a slotted block curved to the arc of a circle, with THE SHIFTING LINK. 233 a radius about equal to the distance between the centerof the driving-axle and the center of the rocker-pin.The general plan of the link-motion is shown in Fig. 12.Fitted to slide in the link-slot is the block…
Locomotives
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