Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 235
peed. A loaded governor of the type shown in Fig. 141 or Fig. 136,that is, a governor having four arms, has the further advantagethat the vertical movement of the collar, or central column,is twice as great as the movement of the weights at the ends ofthe rotating arms. That is, for a given change… … Fig. 143. this is that these governors may be run at a less speed than theWatt governor, hence their general use on low speed engines ofthe Corliss type. Shaft Governors.—Governors which are located in the fly-wheel and which turn with the flywheel are commonly calledshaft governors. These are…
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