Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants . throttle valve, or will increase theratio of expansion, as the steam pressure diminishes or as theload is increased, and will continue to move in the proper direc-tion, indefinitely, or until the machine comes to speed, oruntil the engine is doing all that it can do. In the gov-ernor here used, two levers are set on either side the crank-shaft, in a frame or a pulley to which they are pivoted at^, b. These rods carry weights, ^, A^ which may be ad-justed to any desired position by means of the bolt
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants . throttle valve, or will increase theratio of expansion, as the steam pressure diminishes or as theload is increased, and will continue to move in the proper direc-tion, indefinitely, or until the machine comes to speed, oruntil the engine is doing all that it can do. In the gov-ernor here used, two levers are set on either side the crank-shaft, in a frame or a pulley to which they are pivoted at^, b. These rods carry weights, ^, A^ which may be ad-justed to any desired position by means of the bolts seenin the cut. The outer end of each rod is linked to theloose eccentric, C, C, by the rods, B, B, and is controlledby the springs, F, F, which resist the effort of centrifugalforce tending to throw the weights outward. As the weights 70 STEAM ENGINES FOR swing outward or inward, as the one or the other of the twoopposing forces predominates, the eccentric is turned onthe shaft in such a manner as to give the valves that motionwhich is necessary to produce the proper distribution of steam. bring the engine tq its speed. The adjustment of thisregulator to its work is easily obtained by the shifting ofthe weights along the levers, or by increasing or diminishingtheir amount, as is found necessary.
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