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Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)

Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 45

An illustration from Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin, 1919, leaf 45 — The cylinders aresupported by the guide section and are bolted to it. In somemarine engines, which are always of the vertical type, the A-shaped frame is modified, the cylinders being supported directlyon steel columns and the guides bolted between them. Thisconstruction is used to secure lightness… … Fig. 18. valve face represents one extreme; the short-ported Corlissengine is the other extreme. The cylinder body is a continuousshell except where the ports cut through it; and around each endthere is a stout flange to which the cylinder heads are bolted. It will be noticed that the cylinder is…

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