Creighton, William Henry Paul, 1859- · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 108
tric-rod as a rodof infinite length, as it is often forty times the eccentric throwin length. The connecting-rod is usually only five to seven timesthe crank throw in length, and in accurate work the exact posi-tion of the piston for different crank positions must be found.The graphic methods given… … Fig. 56. Fig. 57. Fig. 58. of its stroke, as shown above. It is very convenient in findingthe position of a valve to measure the distance it is from its mid-position. This is never done with pistons, but is always donewith slide-valves. As the eccentric-rod is generally assumed asinfinite in length…
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