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 521
pe of engine. Owing to the variation 508 Steam Engineering in the angular advance of the single eccentric actuated bya shaft governor, the degree of compression varies with thepoint of cut off in the single valve engine, the compression r/ \\^ / ^ c^ \ N K / is »^ \ ^y^ N / <o tj \ / >; 1 \ ^… … Fig. 195 much lead which, together with the compression, caused amomentary rise in the pressure above the normal. Thelead at B is approximately correct. The difference in ter- Diagram Ayialysis 509 minal pressures at C and D is the result of shifting of thepoints of cut off caused by variations in…