. The street railway review . The Baltic PowerCompany, Baltic, Conn., has used the Lombard waterwheel governor. The plant consists of three pairs ofHolmes horizontal wheels working under 35 feet head,which drive two General Electric three-phase generatorsat Baltic, two G. motorsdeveloping 400-horse-power, atTaftsville SA i^lesaway, also drivingthe generators of theNorwich ElectricRailway Company12 miles away fromthe power plant, be-sides operating a250-horse-powerelectric locomotivewhich moves freightcars from Tafts toTaftsville on theNew York & NewEngland small incand
. The street railway review . The Baltic PowerCompany, Baltic, Conn., has used the Lombard waterwheel governor. The plant consists of three pairs ofHolmes horizontal wheels working under 35 feet head,which drive two General Electric three-phase generatorsat Baltic, two G. motorsdeveloping 400-horse-power, atTaftsville SA i^lesaway, also drivingthe generators of theNorwich ElectricRailway Company12 miles away fromthe power plant, be-sides operating a250-horse-powerelectric locomotivewhich moves freightcars from Tafts toTaftsville on theNew York & NewEngland small incandescentmachine is also drivenfrom the jack shaft atBaltic. The standard typeof governor made by the Lombard Water Wheel Governor Company, Boston,is used in this plant, and has given satisfaction. It con-sists of a hydraulic piston which applies its thrust ineither direction to the rack, pinion and gears at the leftside of the machine, and the gears transmit the motion ofthe piston to the gate mechanism of the turbine. The. LOMBARD WATER WHEEL GOVERNOR, BALTIC POWER COMPANY, BALTIC, CONN. air is contained in a tank under the bed plate of thegovernor, the pressure being maintained at 15 atmos-pheres, 210 pounds gage pressure, by a pump operatedby the hand wheel. The machine is made in three sizes,known as A, B and C, the hand wheel being on the frontof the smaller and the back of the larger machines. The centrifugal governor balls actuate a perfectly-balanced piston valve which stands in the circulating sys-tem, having a lap of ^j of an inch, and a motion of that dis-tance one way or the other, as the speed varies, causes the hydraulic pistonand train of gears toopen or close thegates of the 4 is a diagramshowing the load inhorse-power be-tween 6:20 p. M. and6:50 p. M. March 6,1895, taken at figures at thebottom of the dia-gram represent min-utes, at each end, loadin horse-power, andthe crooked line, thevariation of load eachhalf minute. Whenthe diagram was
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