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 198
linderson the other side and intermediate spaces are filled with steam at the low-pressure terminal, or 40 lbs. The total amount of steam is then 120 X 1 ==40 X3.9 = Total 120156 276 THE DUPLEX PUMPwhich divided by the volume, 4.9, gives a resulting pressure of 276 187 4.9 = 56.5 lbs. as shown in… … 56.5 FIG. 190.— CROSS EXHAUST OPEN. fiom the left-hand high-pressure cylinder flows into the intermediate spaceand raises the pressure to 56.5 lbs. in order to help out the right-hand low-pressure piston. Fig. 190 shows this action clearly, but in practice the rise in pressurewill not be as abrupt…
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