Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 115
secured at high rotative speed because 78 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF POWER PLANTS. the strain on the crank-pin is never reversed, which will bethe occasion for knock or pound in a double-acting engineupon passing the centres,, unless the adjustment and fittingare very perfect and the adjustment of… … Fig. 63. steam-pressure in the cylinders. Continuous action is securedby putting two cylinders to act upon the same crank-shaft.The two best-known single-acting engines of the rotative typeare the Westinghouse and the Willans. Fig. 63 shows alongitudinal section and Fig. 64 a transverse section of…
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