A CHEAPER TURBINE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 630, 6 October 1909, Page 7

A CHEAPER TURBINE.

\Jy '- .[ : MORE EFFICIENCY. A REDUCTION GEAR TO PROPELLERS. • ■'.;■'. LESS SPACE.REQUIRED. . tßy' TcleßraphjPrcss Association-Copyright.) .•.,/'" ,'-. ' New York, October- i. Tho "Now. York Timos" announces that Bear-Admiral Melville, lata Enginecr-in-Chief of the United States Navy, Mr. A. M"Alpine, ami Mr./'Ceorgo Wcstinghouse havo jointly invented a reduction .'gear, 7 which will enablo a marino turbine to run at full speed whilo the propellers revolve at. a proper rato to produco ;thn greatest driving power, thus reducing the wnstagb; of. steam. /': 'The-invontion enables steam .to accomplish fifteqn per conti; more work than was done under previous conditions. • Tho saving in tho first/Cost of thoengino and boiler rooms of a singlo .40,000-ton'vessel would bo £400,000, and SOO tons would bo freed, for cargo spneo. Tho, inventors havo overcome tho difficulty of.correctly•',adjusting tho gearrteoth:by moans o( a steel/flowing frame, 'on which a pinion is mounted. .'This!framp is sufficiently elastic to enable thopinion to adjust itself instantaneously...to/ any'changes in. alignment., ' . [The m'arino turbine has so far heen used almost . entiroly, for services where cheapness is secondary, toispcod, :A .cheaper arid more efficient turbinoimay reach the whole of the ocean tram services. It /would also havo a .marked innuen'ce'innavol construction.] . .