A practical treatise on mill-gearing, wheels, shafts, riggers
Thomas Box
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(RareBooksClub.com, March 4, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...less than the strain on A in the ratio of 4 to 6 28 or 1 to 6 28-f-4 = 1-57. The power exerted in raising the weight B varies with every position of the crank, at F and G it is nothing, and at H and J it is greater than at B in the ratio given. The fly-wheel E equalizes these irregularities by absorbing the extra power at H and J, and giving it out again at F and G, but evidently the crank-shaft K has a greater strain upon it than the shaft L in the ratio of 1 57 to 1, and must be made stronger to resist it, although the horse-power is the same in both cases. Thus, with 100-horse engine, the shaft K has to bear a maximum strain of 157 horse-power, and if the same value of M were used in both cases, its diameter would have to be calculated for that power by the rules; but the usual course is to increase the multiplier in the proper ratio. (77.) With two engines coupled together by one shaft with cranks at a right angle, or 90 as usual, the strain is much less variable than with one crank, being 1 to I'll instead of 157, so that a single engine of 100 horse-power would require a crank-shaft equal in strength to an ordinary shaft of 157 horsepower, but two engines of the combined power of 100 horses require a shaft of 111 horse-power only. In our case Fig. 18, the strain on the piston is 113 x 20 = 2260 lbs., and the work done in one revolution is 2260 x d x 40 = 361,600 foot-pounds; the weight B is 2260-M-57 = 1440 lbs., and the work done in raising it is 1440 x 6 28 x 40 = 361,600 foot-pounds also. (78.) The value of M for cast-iron crank-shafts of steamengines may be taken at 400, which is the old multiplier of Buchanan, and agrees very well with general practice. Table 14 gives the particulars of crank-shafts in practice, and shows that the value of M vari...