Valve gear of two Cornish Engines used for pumping water at Crofton. The older was built as a low pressure Boulton & Watt engine in 1812 and converted to the Cornish cycle in 1843, the other dates from 1846.
Valve gear opens and closes valves in the correct order. In rotating engines valve timings can be driven by eccentrics or cranks, but in non-rotative beam engines these options are not available. In the Cornish engine valves are driven either manually or through ‘plug rods’ and tappets driven from the beam. This permits the insertions of delays at various points in the cycle, allowing a Cornish Engine to vary from one stroke in ten minutes, to ten or more strokes in one minute,[1]: 72 but also leads to some less familiar components when compared with rotative engines.
^Reynolds, Michael (1881). Stationary Engine Driving – A practical Manual. C. Lockwood and Company.
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