Recent Blogs
Toe and Lifter for Puppet Valves: Mechanism, Parts, and Uses in Cornish Beam Engines Explained
Toe and lifter for puppet valves — how Cornish and beam-engine valve gear lifts the equilibrium puppet valve, with a worked example for a pumping...
Valve Gear of a Cornish Engine: How the Trip Mechanism, Plug Rod and Tappets Work
Understand Cornish engine valve gear — how the steam, equilibrium and exhaust valves are tripped by tappets and plug rod to drive single-acting pumping engines.