VALUABLE INVENTION.
Received October 5, 9 a.m. NEW YORK, October 4. The "New York Times" announces that Rear Admiral Melville, late En-gineer-in-Chief of the United States Navy, Mr A. McAlpine, and Mr George Westinghouse have jointly invented a reduction gear, which will enable a marine turbine to run at full speed while the propellers revolve at a proper rate to produce the greatest driving power, thu3 reducing the wastage of steam. The in/ention enables steam to accomplish fifteen per cent, mora work than under previous conditions. Four hundred thousand pounds will be saved in the engine and boiler rooms of a single 40,000 ton vessel, and 500 tons will be freed for cargo apace.
The inventors have overcome the difficulty of correctly adjusting the gear teeth by means of a steel flow' ing frame, on which a pinion is mountel This frame is sufficiently elastic to enable the pinion to adjust itself instantaneously to any changes in alignment.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9613, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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158VALUABLE INVENTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9613, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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