Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes (1890)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 110
running. The bell-cranks within the governorcasing, move a rod which passes along the centre line ofthe governor shaft and emerges at the left. This rod en-gages a large bell-crank at the end of the shaft, throughwhich the load suspended under the engine is sustained.But one spring, and that a… … The Cummer Governor. the additional action of the governor weights when theyfly outward, as the engine increases speed. The more nearlyan equilibrium is maintained between the action of theflying weights and the balancing load, at the proper speedof engine and at all possible positions of the…
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