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1890 Article & 1896 Ad-Frick Co., Eclipse Corliss Steam Engine |
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The Steam User 1890 pg xxxiv & Power Magazine, V16 #1, Jan 1896, pg 71 |
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3/28/2013 10:30:07 AM |
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The engraving on page opposite represents an "Eclipse" Corliss Engine, built by the Frick Co. It is characterized by its great strength, pleasing design, large wearing and bearing surfaces, exquisite workmanship, and thoroughly good proportion. It is in every sense of the word, a genuine Corliss engine, and in it have been embodied all the improvements lately introduced, such as self-regulating automatic vacuum dash-pots for securing prompt closure of cut-off valve; approved "constant lever" valve-disengaging mechanism, detachable solid steam and exhaust valves; automatic stop governor, which in case of governor belt breakage prevents engine from doing any damage either to itself or machinery driven by it; full length removable junk ring piston bearing, with approved sectional steam packing-ring for same; with adjustments for compensating for wear and keeping the piston-rod exactly in the centre of cylinder, thus avoiding stuffing-box wear; use of permanent iron lagging, highly polished, which is perfectly insulated by non-conducting material, and an improvement over wood lagging of any kind. A peculiar feature of the engine is a liberal use of steel for all rods, connections, and parts where other builders have heretofore used wrought iron; the use of finest phosphor bronze in place of composition; wrought iron in the place of cast iron, and the lining of all wearing and bearing surfaces with an unapproachable anti-friction metal. It seems to have been the aim of the builders—and they have succeeded in a remarkable degree—to overcome all minor defects of Corliss engines as heretofore made; a severe carrying out of all the principles that go to make this particular type of engine unique in the position it occupies in regard to all the qualities for which it is distinguished from any other type heretofore introduced. |
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1890 Frick Co., Eclipse Corliss Steam Engine
1896 Frick Co., Eclipse Corliss Steam Engine
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