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Title: Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering
Year: 1869 (1860s)
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Subjects: Mechanical engineering
Publisher: New York, Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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cal tubes, which, when of certain pr 1 th and wit! diffuser, un in the coefficient of effect due to the latter, of about three per ■ tie- wheel from the too of the vertical shaft, instead of running it 011 been previously attempted, but not with such success as to warrant tion. fully illustrated in the accompanying plates.II RBINE WHEEL. Plal V III. is 1 rertic action through th • ■ XL is a pi in of the turbine and wheelpit and garniture. This turbine was constructed for the Tremonl Ming Co. ;it Lowell, by Mr. ■ most of Mr. : water, under 1.. feet head and fall, i- about I ful el! B, 1 the water in t ight at which the turbi C, wheelpit. I ■. • loor of the wheelpil pt dry bj pumps, thr< e i taf iron are ■ ,- the walls which are firmly secured to the cast-iron beams by holt-. To protect the thick) ing t. I Inch thick, man hole : Ulid tl end of the supply pip III. Tl from the « heelpil i beam <»: the for that purpose. Th l\. ■ference. l • its u 884 WATER-WHEELS.
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WATER-WHEELS. proper directions. They are made of Russian plate iron, one-tenth of an inch in thickness, secunthe disc by tenons, Tiers of the guides, near the wheel, connected by the garniture L, which is intended to diminiah the contr ■• streams enterin wheel, when the regulating gate is fully raised. The garniture is composed of thirty-threecast-iron, careful ill the spaces between the guides; they are strongly rive: . ■ ach other.The upper flange of the disc pipe is furnished with adjusting screw-, by which I• >n the upper curb. The escape of water between the upper curb and the upperis prevented by a band of leather on the ontside, which is in its place bythewro iron ring P. The top of the disc pipe, just below the upper flange, has two wings, fitting inlin the top of the curb, to prevent the disc from rotating in the opp 1, sting gate, I (Plate XL as folly .raised. Thej fc-iron; the up- per part of the cylinder is stiffened by a ri!>, to which are attached three bi

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