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 601
haft. Water-cooling maybe an effective means, but creates considerable loss by con-densation in the surrounding steam spaces. The majority of designers get around this difficulty byavoiding contact between packing and shaft, and securetightness only by the least possible clearance. This is… … y x y Fig. 239labarynth stuffing box on both parts form alternately a narrow space x, and alarge space y. The velocity of the steam flowing throughthis narrow space is destroyed by eddy-currents in the
