Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 62
cast-iron disk, withholes bored to receive thecrank pin and the shaft.The crank disk is madethicker opposite the crankpin than it is on thecrank pin side in order to counterbalance it. The crank diskis either forced on the shaft and keyed, as shown here, orelse shrunk on, in which case a key is… … Fig. 37. 48 STEAM ENGINES shape does not permit of as much counterbalancing as the diskshape, but, on the other hand, slow speed engines do not requireas heavy counterweights as do high speed engines. A crank for a center crank engine is shown in Fig. 39. This
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