A manual of the mechanics of engineering and of the construction of machines. Designed as a text-book for technical schools and colleges, and for the use of engineers, architects, etc. (1878)
Weisbach, Julius Ludwig, 1806-1871, Du Bois, A. Jay (Augustus Jay), 1849-1915, Buel, Richard H. (Richard Hooker), b. 1842 · New York. J. Wiley & Sons, 1878- · leaf 336
§ 464-] THE STEAM ENGINE. 323 chamber with a, opens when the piston K\% raised by acounterweight, in order that the steam above it may passby E FE^ around beneath the piston. Since thus there is Fig. 743. … on both sides of the piston about the same steam pressure,this valve is called the equilibrium valve (Fr. soupapedequilibre ; Ger. Gleichg-ewichtsventil). The opening andclosing of these three valves during a complete strokemust take place in the following order. At first, let the piston AT be…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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