Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 288
oduce momentary departures from the normal ormean speed. This difficulty of the exact parabolic governoris corrected in two ways. First, by attaching a dash-pot tothe governor-spindle, and secondly, by the use of approximateparabolas for the path of the balls. The dash-pot methodattaches to the… … Fig. 208. through and around the piston serves as a brake, to preventjumping or racing or hunting, while no real resistance isoffered to changes of position. Theapproximate parabolic governor issometimes called the cross-armedgovernor. The suspending links arehung from points which are thecentres…
Mechanical engineering · Steam power plants
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