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
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 … Fig. 240 Fig. 241 large space, so that for further velocity, a part of the dropin pressure is utilized. With a large number of rings,and with very small spaces x, the loss is greatly decreased. _ The Steam Turbine 589 It also seems to have a favorable influence when the steamin leaving this narrow…
