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 151
FIG. 144. — LOW-PRESSURE VALVE SIDESHOWING LEAD ON BOTTOM END. FIG. 146. —THE GOVERNOR INPOSITION. 140 VALVE SETTING The high-pressure crank should be placed on the top center. The loweredge of the upper port is 5f|- ins, below the top surface T of the valvechamber. Since the thickness of the… … FIG. 147.— THE HIGH-PRESSURE VALVE. 5^ —3y\- — ^ = 3^. It is well to remember in this connection that thevalve rises to open, hence the lead (^ in.) is subtracted from the distanceof the top of the valve to the edge T (see Fig. 147). To set the valve, then, it is only necessary to put the…
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