The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 539
rom the simpler arrangement inFig. 23 chiefly in that the bearing is wholly cut off from possible com-munication with the steam space. The face blocks are of hard castiron, disc D keyed to the shaft, C held in the frame, with vertical ad-justment by set screws. Oil at high pressure (perhaps 600 to… … 0/7 Dro/n01/ dupp/y Fig. 362. — Pivot Bearing of Curtis Turbine, from catalogue. touching. The whole weight of the rotor is thus floated on oil, and thefrictional resistance is very low. The arrangement in Fig. 23 is intendedfor water instead of oil in the bearing, since it would be almost…
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