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 615
to 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 caused to remainopen for a longer or shorter period of! time, according tothe load upon the 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 the demand forsteam. At full load the puffs merge into an almost con-tinuous blast.…
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