. The Street railway journal . controlled automat-ically by the governor, which secures a substantially reg-ular receiver pressure and a proper distribution of the loadand temperature between the two cylinders. The lowpressure cylinder is further from the crank than the highpressure and supported by an emplacement integral withthe bed-plate, corresponding in shape to that supportingthe high pressure cylinder. This construction allows each May, 1898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 257 cylinder to expand independently of the other, and al-ways preserves the alignment. Moreover, either cylinderis easy
. The Street railway journal . controlled automat-ically by the governor, which secures a substantially reg-ular receiver pressure and a proper distribution of the loadand temperature between the two cylinders. The lowpressure cylinder is further from the crank than the highpressure and supported by an emplacement integral withthe bed-plate, corresponding in shape to that supportingthe high pressure cylinder. This construction allows each May, 1898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 257 cylinder to expand independently of the other, and al-ways preserves the alignment. Moreover, either cylinderis easy of access without disturbing the other. In four-valve triple expansion engines of this companythe governor is made double and cross connected; that is, not be increased over 20 per cent, and state that on atandem compound condensing engine of 150 , using aConover belt driving air pump with a plunger feed pumpon the end of the shaft, with a load of 106 the waterrate was less than 18 lbs. per per hour, and the coal. FIGS. 97 AND 98.—TYPICAL CYLIN DER AND VALVE CHAMBER—DICK & CHURCH ENGINE
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