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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1906)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 65

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ards from the cross-head, so as toextend behind the end of the cylinder, which has hithertobeen called the head end, and to locate the crank and engine-shaft thus behind the cylinder as it were. It is usually neces-sary where the shaft is behind the cylinder to make use of twoconnecting-rods from… … two connecting-rods may go to independent crank-pins, or thetwo connecting-rods may join behind the cylinder to formone, which in the axis of the cylinder at the back will trans- THE MECHANISM OF ENGINES, 25 mit the effort to a single pin. This type of design is by nomeans unusual for pumps,…

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