Locomotive operation; a technical and practical analysis (1904)
Henderson, G. R. (George R.), b. 1861 · Chicago, Railway Age · leaf 110
ed, it is advisableto use a valve with inside admission, as in both cases theeccentrics will occupy the same relative position to the crank.As already pointed out, the piston.valve has a number of ad-vantages when arranged with inside admission, as in Fig. 28,prominent among which are the absence… … Fig: 28. Fig. 29. case. The valves shown in Figs. 26, 27 and 28 all have thesame lap and clearance, and would all give the same steam dis-tribution, except that, as the ports are generally longer in apiston valve (being the circumference of the valve minus thesum of the width of the bridges), the…
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