Valve setting: simple methods of setting the plain slide valve. Meyer cut-off. Corliss. and poppet types (1908)
Collins, Hubert Edwin, 1872- · New York [etc.] Hill publishing company · leaf 136
gines In taking np valve setting on compound engines, the first point toconsider is what work the engine is designed for, what steam pressure it isto work under, and whether it is to run condensing or noncondensing. With regard to tandem compounds, wo will consider the two types ofa valve gear;… … klm|nii2[ FIG. 129. Of course both valves in the high- and low-pressure cylinders would beset independently, giving each its proper amount of lead; but since thegovernor controls both high- and low-pressure valves, we have an increasedlead, as the cut-off becomes later for both valves. The load for…
Steam-engines
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