link motion

British  

noun

1. a mechanism controlling the valves of a steam engine, consisting of a slotted link terminating in a pair of eccentrics

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link motion

Then he will adopt some link motion for the legs in place of leather thongs, and will hinge the paddle blades so that they open out with the forward stroke, but collapse with the return.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon

The purpose of the double eccentrics is to enable an improved arrangement of valve gear to be employed, which is denominated the link motion, and which will be described hereafter.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

The valves of the high-pressure and intermediate cylinders were of the piston type, and the low-pressure cylinder had double-ported slide valves, fitted with Stephenson link motion.

From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by British Government

The steam blast thrown into the smokestack by Hackworth, the tubular boiler of Seguin and the link motion of Stephenson were then, as they now are, the essential features of locomotives.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

A.--No; direct acting screw engines are usually fitted with the link motion and two fixed eccentrics.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

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