. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. 6.—LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF THE DoW TURBINE. The play betweeu the motor disk and the plates is aboutthree one thousandths of an inch, and it can lie adjusted withgreat precision by the vernier 40 (fig. 11) that is cut upon theplates 14 and 15. Vol. No. 0.] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 407 \l Tl IUS1NE (1893). Iii this turbine (flg. 18) the steam follows a centripetal course. Admitted at .///around the motor disk .1, it escapesfrom the centre at Q through g g, after having run throughthe spiroidal passages A in the plates /■. which arc enla
. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. 6.—LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF THE DoW TURBINE. The play betweeu the motor disk and the plates is aboutthree one thousandths of an inch, and it can lie adjusted withgreat precision by the vernier 40 (fig. 11) that is cut upon theplates 14 and 15. Vol. No. 0.] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 407 \l Tl IUS1NE (1893). Iii this turbine (flg. 18) the steam follows a centripetal course. Admitted at .///around the motor disk .1, it escapesfrom the centre at Q through g g, after having run throughthe spiroidal passages A in the plates /■. which arc enlarged. Fig. OF TIIE DOW TURBINE. toward the centre so as to allow the steam to expand at Hiesame time that it acts upon the wings of the disk A. SEGER TURBINE (1893). This turbine (tig. 13) consists of two wheels, a and b, joinedby pinions so as to turn at the same speed, but in oppositedirections. They are enclosed in a chamber whence the steam
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