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 273
FiG. 15. tion they appear in, in Fig. 15, where the rods are open,and nearly horizontal. The full parts of both eccentricsare advanced towards the crank-pin, so that the centersof the eccentrics are advanced from a perpendicularline drawn through center of axle, a horizontal distanceequal to the… … Fig. 16. Fig. 16. The reason why the rods must be crossedwhen the crank is in this position, is, that the forwardeccentric center is below the axle, and the backwardeccentric center is above. As the forward eccentric-rod SETTING THE VALVES. 249 maintains its connection with the top of the link,…
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