Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 247
s type ofengine is not used to a large extent and is made only in compara-tively small sizes. A more common arrangement, either intandem-compound engines or in cross-compound engines withcranks placed 90° apart, is to have separate valves on eachcylinder which may be adjusted independently of each… … Fig. 150. does not occur at the same time as compression in the high-pressure cylinder. If the cylinders are placed near each other sothat the connecting passages are short, the receiver is usuallyin the form of a separate vessel connected in the passage betweenthe two cylinders; but when the…
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