Ludy, Llewellyn V., 1875- [from old catalog], American Technical Society · Chicago, American technical society · leaf 105
of the valve would soon wear a hollow path in thevalve seat, and it would cease to be steam tight. Eccentric. The valve usually receives its motion from aneccentric, which is simply a disk keyed to the shaft in such a mannerthat the center of the disk and the center of the shaft do not coin-cide.… … Fig. 1. Plain Slide, or D, valve VALVE GEARS lent to the action of a crank whose length is equal to the distancebetween the center of the eccentric and that of the shaft. Fig. 2 represents the essentials of an ordinary eccentric. Oi isthe center of the shaft, 02 is the center of the eccentric disk…
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