Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 119
ake, isshown in Fig. 69. This brake consists of a wooden beam C and aband B made of a number of hard wood blocks fastened to asheet iron band and passing around the flywheel A. The beam Chas a steel knife-edge fastened to its under side near the end andresting on an iron plate on top of the stand… … Fig. 69. a nut on its end. The other end of the band is held by handwheel D so it may be tightened and its friction adjusted. Theedges of the flywheel form inwardly projecting flanges so that astream of water may be run into the flywheel to keep it cool.Preparatory to using the brake, the distance…
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