Workers in the seamless tube department at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation's Aliquippa Works. Aliquippa, PA.
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Workers in the seamless tube department at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation's Aliquippa Works. Aliquippa, PA.
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Workers at the Hiram Walker & Sons Bottling Works. Walkerville, ON. 1905.
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Hearth workers at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1915.
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Workers at the Atwater Kent Radio Company. Philadelphia, PA. 1925.
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Workers at the Homestead Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel Company. Homestead, PA. 1893.
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Corliss engine at the Mesta Machine Company. West Homestead, PA.
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Wonder what it does?
A Corliss engine is a stationary steam engine, commonly to drive shafting in factories and the like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corliss_steam_engine# Given this is up on blocks, whith peices laid out next to it, I suspect this is one Mesta was building for a customer?
Given it is Mesta, there could be a hydraulic pump involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat
That big flyball governor - nice...
The two rods to activate the intake valves (top of cylinder) and the exhaust valves (bottom of cylinder) indicate that this is not a genuine Corliss design but one of Corliss' competitors. A genuine Corliss design would have a wrist plate centrally mounted on the side of the cylinder driven by a single rod. Four adjustable rods from the wrist plate to the valves would allow independent timing of the valves, the secret to the engine's efficiency. The wrist plate was a feature of Corliss' patent so his competitors had to come up with something different.
Here's a short video I made of a Corliss rescued from a sugar mill and now operating at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA. It clearly shows the wrist plate in operation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uNn42aipJk