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 40
eccentric rodwith the link should be parallel with theaxle centers. In the construction of someclassed of locomotives, especially withthe largest kind of cylinders, the perfect lever, which being attached to the cross-head, maintains the position of the valvewith a degree of accuracy rarely… … FIG. i. FORWARD GEAR, LINK-BLOCK AT BOTTOM OF LINK. alignment of these points would necessi-tate an extra extension of the link arm,which in turn would require an excessiveamount of eccentric throw, and hence thepoint of eccentric rod connection with thelink arm is often at some distance abovethe…
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