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 603
ide.by two bronze rings 590 Steam Engineering d^ d^ each made in three parts^ which are held against theshaft with slight pressure by the spiral springs e. A pres-sure in an axial direction is caused by springs f. Thechambers of all the stuffing boxes of the turbine are con-nected together. Thus a… … Fig. 243 steam to enter, thus preventing air from being drawn in. Steam is led in Figs. 240 and 241 through the ringpassages, and excludes thereby the air, so that the vacuumdoes not suffer. The construction of a turbine stuffing box as steam tightas that of the steam engine is still an unsolved…
