Robert.......yes.....my mistake......Packard aquired Studebaker, the other way around. However the Studebaker nameplate was carried on and Packard dropped. This was at a time when neither company knew much about managing capital and all that was the car business. Labor Unions played a roll in the demise of Studebaker as well. By this time, the Studebaker family was long gone from their company.
figusmakem.....again.......another mistake, my apologies, they are mechanical presses.
jim..........READ THE POST ABOVE YOURS. They went to Venezuela !!!!!!
I had a few mistakes in my post. Due to the OBVIOUS inability for people TO READ thoroughly, I guess I was so fed up with the BLATANT disregard for posts containing correct identifcations of these engines, etc. I finally snapped and went off the deep end with my initial post. It's just amazing that some people REFUSE to read and then STILL offer up their ridiculous assumptions.
I guess that's why some people only buy books and magazines to "look at the pictues" !!!!!!!!!
What I believe these are .....connecting rods to the steam "pistons". Steam pressure pushes the pistons thus pushing the connecting rods....those in turn push the beam....at each ed of the beam are the "pump rods". Those would reach deep into the earth to pump the water out. Hence the name "beam engine" The pivot points shown here are really very similar to an automobile engine......the "wrist pins" of the piston. Car engines however, use the piston and connecting rod to turn the crank shaft as a means to turn the drive wheels. Here....the wrist pins are connecting the rods to the pump beam. The central pivot....much larger than the rod pivots, allows the beam to be pushed by the rods opposing each other....like a rocker switch. The beam then pulls and pushes the pump shafts or rods. Very simple yet ingenius system. Very similar also to an old steam ocean liner. Remember the movie "Titanic". The connecting rods turning the large crank shaft in the engine room scenes...that crank shaft actually turned the propellers or "screws" that powered the ship. That machinery was roughly the same size as this water pump mechanism.
This facility has to be clean.....it's a museum now. Don't you people read the opening paragraphs ??? It still operates on certain holidays thru the year as a demonstration.
The "knife like" lever is a locking lever for the valve wheel. This is more than likely an oil injector valve. Occasionally, oil is injected into the mechanisms to keep it lubricated. The locking lever allows the valve to be open to a certain level and locked in place.
That particular piece of equipment had to stay clean....it is the governer to control the throttle of the steam engine. If it were dirty, the "balls" would not throw out to max speed, as the shaft would not slide the mechanism properly and the engine would not run to "balls-out" speed.
Yes, that is also correct.......it comes from steam locomotive engineers......when the "balls" were straight out......the engineer would tell his conductor or brakeman that "we're runnin balls-out".........meaning full throttle. It's been adopted by just about every gear-head in the world !! And, it has nothing to do with male anatomy !!!
figusmakem.....again.......another mistake, my apologies, they are mechanical presses.
jim..........READ THE POST ABOVE YOURS. They went to Venezuela !!!!!!
I had a few mistakes in my post. Due to the OBVIOUS inability for people TO READ thoroughly, I guess I was so fed up with the BLATANT disregard for posts containing correct identifcations of these engines, etc. I finally snapped and went off the deep end with my initial post. It's just amazing that some people REFUSE to read and then STILL offer up their ridiculous assumptions.
I guess that's why some people only buy books and magazines to "look at the pictues" !!!!!!!!!
Again, my apologies for the 2 errors in my post.