The valve-setter's guide; a treatise on the construction and adjustment of the principal valve gearings used on American locomotive (1910)
Kennedy, James, 1848-1922 · New York, A. Sinclair company · leaf 33
at right angles tothe main crank is the primal necessity inthe construction of the Walschaerts gear-ing. It can readily be understood that aconnecting rod attached to an eccentricor crank so fixed and so adjusted in pointof length that it would reach exactly tothe movable valve while the valve was… … WALSCHAERTS VARIABLE EXPANSION VALVE MOTION APPLIED TO LOCOMOTIVE98, AT BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, SEPT. 2, 1848. tives, the rods being furnished with hooksadapted to catch the rocker pin. This reversing contrivance attached tothe early locomotives is alluded to in or-der that the condition of the valve…
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