Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 425
eiving-pipe shownon the left-hand side of the governor, flowing over into the bucket, will cause it to descendwhen it has received within it a sufficient quantity of water to overcome the floating powerof the water surrounding it; in descending it will, through the intervention of the… … Fig. :i.—Mason pump-governor. pump in operation. If the pump is of a capacity greater than the supply it will, after a fewstrokes, take water from the bucket enough to so lessen its weight that the surrounding water will float it upward and cause the slide-valve tomove to the right, thus closing…
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