Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 190
effects of different positions of the swinging eccentricupon the distribution of steam to the cyhnder may be studiedfrom a valve diagram such as that shown in Fig. 109. The swing-ing eccentric gives its greatest eccentricity when the engine is atrest or when the load is the greatest. In the valve… … Fig. 109. swings, or AO in Fig. 106. As the cut-off is shortened by the gov-ernor, the eccentricity becomes smaller and for any position of thegovernor the eccentricity will be the distance from the center 0of Fig. 109 to the arc ED. Thus, when the eccentric has beenmoved one-half of its total…
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