Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1914)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley Publishing · leaf 104
exhaust steam-heatingsystems. The two-winged valves are nearly bal-anced, requiring only a small weight to bal-ance them and prevent chatter of the valves. STEAM POWER APPLIANCES. lOI 237. AUTOMATIC QUICK-CLOSING VALVE. The bonnetpiston C has a larger area than the valve disk and communicateswith… … 238. The automatic electric controller, shown at the right, has a mag-netic dog that disengages a weight which falls against a lever and opensthe relief valve and quickly closes the valve by the greater pressure onthe rear of the piston. The screw spindle S closes the valve as an ordinary stop…
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