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 52
ward gear, the curve 2, 2 isthat followed when the reverse lever isin the center, and curve 3, 3 is that forfull backward gear. It may be added that the lead or open-ing of the valve at the end of the pistonstroke is an unvarying or constant quan-tity, so that the length of the valve strokeor point… … FIG. 3. DIAGRAM OF MOVEMENTS OF PARTS OF BAKER-PILLIOD GEAR, which the valve opens during the early sired point of cut-off is not surpassed bypart of the piston stroke or the rapidity any kind of valve gearing applied to lo-with which the valve closes at the de- comotives. 47 THE VALVE-SETTERS…
Locomotives
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.