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1878 Article-E. R. & F. Turner, "Gippeswyk" Horizontal Steam Engine |
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The Implement & Machinery Review, V4 #38, 01 Jun 1878, pg. 1606 |
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If we did not know that “Gippeswyk" was the ancient name of Ipswich, we should assume from its title that we had before us a piece of machinery originating in one of the engine shops of a remote part of the new world, where there are names familiar as household words to the native-born, but which it would often puzzle a Welshman to utter felicitously. Given, however, that the name is intended to identify the machine with “ our home" which all Englishmen love, and which thousands of steam users elsewhere admire, we congratulate Messrs. E. R. & F. Turner upon its selection. Those engineers have done much for Ipswich of which she may well be proud ; and the fame of Ipswich in the machine-using world will be enhanced by this latest use of its time-honoured cognomen. Very creditably Ipswich stood when it was so conspicuously represented by the vertical “Gippeswyk,” which Messrs. Turner brought out at the Birmingham meeting of the Royal, in 1876.
We are not surprised that the engineers who produced that machine should have now furnished us with so excellent a specimen of the horizontal type, as that to which we have pleasure in here directing the attention of our readers. So completely is the mechanism of the engine shown in our illustrations that description is almost superfluous. Simplicity with neatness, substantiality, and facility of access to its leading parts are stamped upon it. A better self-contained horizontal it would be hard to find. A splendid piece of casting is that bed plate; it forms not only the bearings for the crank shaft. but also the guides for the crosshead and a portion of one cylinder cover. All strain is hereby taken from the foundation, and there is no need of an outside bearing for the crank shaft. By the simultaneous boring of the cross-head guides and the turning of the cover, the centre line of the guides and that of the cylinder are made to agree, and subsequently disturbance avoided. The excellent manner of securing the cylinder to the frame permits of expansion and contraction without strain on the bed-plate. The brasses of the crank shaft plummer blocks are, it may be mentioned, divided vertically and set together by wedges held up by nuts and lock-nuts in the direction of the strain, the cap-bolts being merely to keep the brasses in place. Of this the value will strike every one having to do with the construction or the working of such machinery. For starting the engine, and regulating its speed, the appliances are combined in one gear forming what is undoubtedly a compact and simple arrangement, the hand wheel playing a part, which many an engineer who has before devoted himself to the devising of a horizontal engine, might envy. The governor is of the excellent bevel-gearing high speed class, adopted in connection with the vertical engine before mentioned. In conclusion we have only to state that the feed pump is worked by a separate eccentric, and is fixed in one of the two standards to which the bed-plate is bolted. The numerous merits of the “ Gippeswyk ” horizontal must win for it great favour.
English patent #1876-2756 |
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1878 E. R. & F. Turner, "Gippeswyk" Horizontal Steam Engine
1878 E. R. & F. Turner, "Gippeswyk" Horizontal Steam Engine
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