The practical application of the slide valve and link motion to stationary, portable, locomotive, and marine engines : with new and simple methods for proportioning the parts (1897)
Auchincloss, William Stuart, 1842-1928 · New York : Van Nostrand · leaf 50
connecting rodA B, fit loosely upon the crank and cross-head pins, that thecrank moving in the direction indicated by the arrow, hasreached a location C A within 8 degrees of the zero, and thatthe piston (on account of the lost motion in the boxes) ^allsshort of its true position B, a distance B B.… … of its own momentum continue moving in the direction ofH until all the lost motion being expended, its progress issuddenly checked and it is itself again brought under thecontrol of the connecting rod, which then draws it forwardupon the return stroke. These concussions are reproducedat the end of…
Steam-engines
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