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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 51

An illustration from Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin, 1919, leaf 51 — ter. In somemakes of four valve high speed engines and also in some largeCorliss engines an effort is made to reduce the clearance to aminimum by placing the valve chambers in the cylinder heads,as shown in Fig. 24; this reduces somewhat the length of ports andthereby reduces the clearance. 36… … Fig. 24. cone-shaped to conform to the shape of the heads, this shape beingadopted to aid the drainage of water of condensation into theports. Having a liner in the cylinder, as indicated at A, simpHfies

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