. The Street railway journal . FIG. AND CROSS SECTIONS OF TURBINE parison of it with those of Laval and Parsons types. Forthis reason particular interest will be felt in the Rateau turbine,which up to this time has been practically unknown in America,though quite extensively used abroad. It is manufactured inSwitzerland, by the Oerlikon Machine Works, and in Franceby Sautter, Harle & Cie. The accompanying description refersparticularly to the machines of this typebuilt by the Oberlikon Company. The Rateau turbine is of the impulse • ■ or direct-action type, and is in principle
. The Street railway journal . FIG. AND CROSS SECTIONS OF TURBINE parison of it with those of Laval and Parsons types. Forthis reason particular interest will be felt in the Rateau turbine,which up to this time has been practically unknown in America,though quite extensively used abroad. It is manufactured inSwitzerland, by the Oerlikon Machine Works, and in Franceby Sautter, Harle & Cie. The accompanying description refersparticularly to the machines of this typebuilt by the Oberlikon Company. The Rateau turbine is of the impulse • ■ or direct-action type, and is in principle not greatly different from the Curtis, ex-cept that in the Curtis the governing tomeet changes in load is accomplished byreducing or increasing the number of noz-zles to which steam is admitted, while inthe Rateau all the nozzles take steam, antlthe governing is effected by a regulator ofa type similar in principle to that of Denshydraulic governor, situated outside of theturbine case proper. The steam is expanded in t
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