Steam engines; a thorough and practical presentation of modern steam engine practice (1917)
Ludy, Llewellyn V., 1875-, American Technical Society · Chicago, American technical society · leaf 89
tems the cranks would be set at 120°, giving a more nearly uniformturning movement to the shaft, since each cylinder will developapproximately one-third the total horsepower of the engine. Still other arrangements of the cylinders of triple-expansionengines are found in Fig. 56. Arrangement A gives… … s Fig. 57. Diagram Showing Quadruple-Expansion Cylinder Arrangement set at 90° with the consequent uneven turning effect, but it is some-times resorted to because of lack of space for all three cylinders inline. Arrangement B is a triple-expansion engine, having six cylin-ders. Here the volume of…
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