. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . totake water from either thesuction or discharge pipe ofthe main pumps, which water,after it has elfected the vacu-um in the condenser, is re-turned to the \)\\>Q from wliichit was taken. By the regulat-ing-valve the amount of waterpassing through the mainwhich is diverted into the con-denser is regulated so that theleast water capable of produc-ing a given vacuum shall passthrough the condenser, in or-J^lZ^LVk^H
. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . totake water from either thesuction or discharge pipe ofthe main pumps, which water,after it has elfected the vacu-um in the condenser, is re-turned to the \)\\>Q from wliichit was taken. By the regulat-ing-valve the amount of waterpassing through the mainwhich is diverted into the con-denser is regulated so that theleast water capable of produc-ing a given vacuum shall passthrough the condenser, in or-J^lZ^LVk^H^-^ der that the temperature ofv>aL,-vvC:-^^.V-t:-->tv4^ the hot well or water deliveredfrom the condenser by the air-pump shall be as high as pos-sible (this water being used asthe feed to the boilers). By„ , . , delivering more water to the Fig. injector-condenser. condenser, a better vacuum may be obtained, with a corresponding reduction in the temperature of the contents of thehot well; but experience has shown that the gain in economy by the imjtroved vacuum ismore than counterbalanced by the reduced temperature of the feed to the boilers, and that a.
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