The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 36
s needed. In all the higher grades of practice,however, the governor acts to vary the cut-off, making it later or earlierin the stroke as more or less power is called for. . § 2 (m) CONSTRUCTION AND WORKING OF THE ENGINE. 19 The high-speed type of engine has a shaft governor, of which a goodexample… … Fig. 15. —The Shaft Governor. and the crank arm CO produces the desired variation in cut-off (in amanner which is explained in § 39). The controlling device consists ofthe weighted arm FW and the flat-leaf spring at the bottom of the figure.The centrifugal force of the weight W acts against the…
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