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 657
Fig. 273 644 Steam Engineering The governor is of the centrifugal type, although dif-fering greatly in detail from the ordinary fly ball governor,as will be seen by reference to Fig. 274. It is connecteddirectly to the end of the gear wheel shaft. Two weightsB are pivoted on knife edges A with… … Fig. 274 milled for the knife edges A. It is afterwards reduced indiameter to pass inside of the weights and its outer end isthreaded to receive the adjusting nut I, by means of whichthe tension of the spring, and through this the speed of thoturbine, is adjusted. When the speed accelerates,…
