Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 49
of the valves are placed across the cylinder, and the valve cham-bers are of rectangular form so that the cylinder has a squarecornered appearance. In later types of engines the tendencyis to round the valve chambers to conform to the shape of thevalve, as shown in Fig. 11. The steam chamber S is… … Fig. 22. The steam chamber is formed right upon the walls of the cylinderso it may act as a steam jacket to this part of the cylinder.The exhaust chamber, E, which contains steam at a lower tem-perature, is separated from the cylinder walls by a cored chamber.The exposed portions of the valve…
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