Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 519
worth mentioning, the back pres-sure line forming part of the atmospheric line through thelargest part of the stroke. The reason for this is that theareas of the exhaust ports, as well as the exhaust pipe weresufficiently large to permit a free passage for the steam.The exhaust pipe, also, was made… … Fig. 192 Figs. 192 to 194, inclusive, represent diagrams from aBuckeye engine 24x48 inches, and are introduced for thepurpose of emphasizing the need of caution and good judg-ment in setting valves by the indicator when the load onthe engine is variable. Fig. 192, which was the first to betaken,…
