Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. (1905)
Swingle, C. F. [from old catalog], Horstmann, Henry Charles, 1858- [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 161
of cut off on the indi-cator diagram shows that the piston has traveled I ofthe stroke. This discrepancy is due to the obliquity /€*■ && .*y FIGURE 25. of the connecting rod, as it will be seen by looking atthe valve diagram, Fig. 22, that the crank must travelfarther to complete the stroke… … FIGURE 26. lap, which would have a tendency to cause admissionto occur too late, or the angle of advance may be VA1/VES AND VALVE SETTING 149 increased sufficient to cause cut off to take place athalf stroke, but to do this alone would cause admissionto occur too early. Therefore the proper thing…
