. The Street railway journal . ft. long has been thrown across the river. The effectivehead on the turbines is thirty-two feet, and the wateravailable, even in the driest seasons, is sufficient to fur-nish not less than 1,500 h. p. Fig. 3 is a plan of the basement of the mill in which. FIG. 3—PART PLAN OF TURBINE AND GENERATOR ROOMS. the power plant is located. It will be seen that the tur-bines are belted to pulleys on the main line shaft extend-ing the whole length of the wheel room, and continuingthrough the partition walls into and along one side of thegenerator room. The pulleys are throw
. The Street railway journal . ft. long has been thrown across the river. The effectivehead on the turbines is thirty-two feet, and the wateravailable, even in the driest seasons, is sufficient to fur-nish not less than 1,500 h. p. Fig. 3 is a plan of the basement of the mill in which. FIG. 3—PART PLAN OF TURBINE AND GENERATOR ROOMS. the power plant is located. It will be seen that the tur-bines are belted to pulleys on the main line shaft extend-ing the whole length of the wheel room, and continuingthrough the partition walls into and along one side of thegenerator room. The pulleys are thrown into or out ofaction by Hunter clutches mounted with pulleys on quills,so that any or all of the wheels can be applied to drivingthe shafts. Similar pulleys and clutches are furnished inthe dynamo rooms for throwing in or out the variousmachines that may there be placed. Fig. 4 shows the wheel room and the arrangement ofthe turbines and line shaft. There are three double,forty-two inch, horizontal wheels and one double, twenty- fc^- • • •.
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