Steam engines, a thorough and practical presentation of modern steam engine practice (1920)
Ludy, Llewellyn V., 1875-, American Technical Society · Chicago, American technical society · leaf 174
unk screws, asshown, and moves with reference to the engine shaft whenever theweights B cause the arm A to move about its pivot point. Fas-tened to the flywheel arm and the governor arm A is the spring C,which brings the arm A back to its normal position when the engineis not operating. This spring… … .158 STEAM ENGINES the engine speeds up, the tendency of the heavy arm A is to lag behindthe flywheel. This lagging action controls the position of the eccen-tric so that the valve travel is reduced, thus limiting the amount ofsteam that enters the cyHnders. If, after the engine is operating ata…
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