Creighton, William Henry Paul, 1859- · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 109
eam be cut offafter a certain amount of it has entered the cylinder, more energymay be extracted from the steam that has entered by allowingit to expand. It will do this if the resistance be gradually lessened. There are a number of variables to consider, but we mayassume for the present that… … Fig. 59. The slide-valve controls the admission of the steam auto-matically, cutting it off after a certain percentage of the strokehas been passed by the piston, opening a relief or exhaustpassage at or near the end of the stroke for the escape of thesteam from the cylinder during the return of…
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