Marine engines; problems, notes and sketches. Additional to the text-book used in the instruction of naval cadets of the second class, United States Naval Academy (1899)
United States Naval Academy. Dept. of Marine Engineering · Annapolis : Dept. of Steam Engineering, U. S. Naval Academy · leaf 87
ng drum; each engine havinga single eccentric to work its slide-valve. The ash buckets are raised or lowered by working the engine,by means of the hand wheel shown on the left of the figure, whichis kept moving in the direction it is desired that the drum revolve;thus keeping open a reversing valve… … Fig. 36. of the hand wheel ceases, a further small movement of the en-gines closes the reversing valve and the supply of steam is shutofif from the cylinders. Fig. 37 illustrates this valve motion. A long pinion, cast withsleeves extending on either side, fitted loose on the automatic or hand-wheel…
Marine engines
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