Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 615
o vary the planeof oscillation of this valve, thus causing it to admit more 602 Steam Engineering or less steam to piston B. The admission valve, beingactuated exclusively by piston B, is thus Gatised to remainopen for a longer or shorter period of time/according tothe. load upon th^ turbine. ^The… … Fig. 249 The governor sleeve is used as a floating fulcrum, andthe points D and E are fixed. By means of this veryingenious device the steam is admitted to the turbine inpuffs, either long or short, according to th6 demand forsteam. At full load the puffs merge into an almost con-tinuous blast.…
