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 601
y ^ 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…
