Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 547
are inch. At thispoint the exhaust valve is opened and so continues during thereturn stroke, while the steam pressure is being exerted on theopposite face of the piston, until the pressure on that side of thepiston is reduced to 3 pounds, absolute. The second diagram, an actual tracing from the… … Fig. 388. —The Cycle of a Steam Engine, as shown by the Indicator Card. On this tracing1,the admission is shown from A to C; the cut-off at C; the expansion curve from C toR; the release, or opening- of the exhaust, at R, exhaust continuing from R to B; clos-ing of the exhaust valve at B;…
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