Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 99
rotation of the piston anti-clockwise, and the steam will escape into the exhaust-passagethrough the hollow in the valve from the right-hand port.This arrangement can be inverted as in the rotary pumpshown in Fig. 42, in which HH acts as a sliding abutment.It is more usual to make this a flat… … Fig. 42. It will be apparent that almost any rotary engine can bereversed in principle and become a rotary pump by applyingpower to the shaft by outside mechanical means and admittingwater through the passages with which the steam enters inthe rotary engine. This convenient peculiarity has given…
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