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 378
in the supply ofsteam. Fig. 133 is a diagram of the governor THE WESTINGHOUSE-PARSONS STEAM TURBINE 367 mechanism. The ball levers swing on knife edgesinstead of pins. The governor works both ways, thatis to say, when the levers are oscillating about theirmid position a head of steam corresponding… … FIGURE 133. nected to the admission valve. Steam is admitted tothis piston under control of the pilot valve A, whichhas a slight but continuous reciprocating motionderived from the eccentric rod C, and the function ofthe governor is-to vary the plane of oscillation of thisvalve, thus causing it to…
