The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 580
plates or rain plates, slightly pitched from § 53 (I)] CONDENSERS AND AIR PUMPS. 563 the middle toward the walls, down which the water runs instead of fall-ing on the tubes below. As shown in the plan at B, large holes throughthe plates give passage to steam, and these holes are staggered… … Fig. 396. — Wheeler Dry-tubeCondenser. Fig. 397. —Early Form ofContraflo Condenser. give better access of steam to the second section, and insure high ac-tivity in the latter. Some such scheme of permitting freer flow amongthe higher tubes is now quite common. The pioneer design * embodying the…
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