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 303
we found the point of suspension ofthe link, so that it will cause the valve to cut offequal portions of steam when the piston stands at halfstroke. It now remains for us to find the position ofthe lifting-shaft and the length of the lifting-shaft arms,so that the greatest equal amounts of steam… … LAYING OUT LINK-MOTION. 279 reader. It would be an easy matter to place our lifting-shaft to accomplish the object just stated ; but, if we dothis, the lead will not be equal at each end of cylinderwhen the piston is at full stroke. Again, if we locateour lifting-shaft in such a manner that equal…
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