Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 489
back to the left. 476 Steam Engineering If at any time the horizontal shaft D appears to be loosein its bearings and needs adjustment, remove nut E, graspthe head W in the fingers and back it off from its place.This will carry the spring, case and milled head from theirpositions and expose the… … Fig. 170 One of the most accurate and easily applied devices forreducing the motion of the piston is the wooden pendulumin its various forms. (See Figs. 169, 170 and 171.) Itconsists of a flat strip of pine or other light wood of alength not less than one and a half times the stroke of theengine,…
