Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 129
s secured at high rotative speed because 7% 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 VVestinghouse and the Willans. Fig. 63 shows alongitudinal section and Fig. 64 a transverse section of…
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