AN AMERICAN INVENTION.
AN IMPROVED MARINE TURBINE
United Puess Association — Corymcin NEW YORK, Oct. 4.
The New York “Times” announces that Rear-Admiral Melville, late en-gineer-in-chief of the United States navy, and Messrs A. Me Alpine and George Westinghouse have jointly ,invented reduction gear which will enable a marine turbine to run at full speed while the propellers revolve at the proper rate to produce the greatest driving power, thus reducing the wastage of steam. The invention enables steam to accomplish 15 per cent, more work than under previous conditions. A sum of £4OOO will be saved in the engine and boiler rooms of a single 4000-ton vessel, and 500 tons will be freed for cargo space. The invention has overcome the difficulty of correctly adjusting the gear teeth by means of a steel flowing frame, on which a pinion is mounted. This frame is sufficiently elastic to enable the pinion to adjust itself instantaneously there are any any changes in the alignment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2625, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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162AN AMERICAN INVENTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2625, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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