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Definition of Butterfly valve
1. Noun. A valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle.
Literary usage of Butterfly valve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt, Thomas & Watt (1903)
"One of the most satisfactory is the balanced or butterfly valve. When used in
the gates they usually turn on a horizontal shaft, and are worked by a lever ..."
2. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1899)
"butterfly valve. The pontoons were to be made of sheet iron. They were to have
a rectangular cross-section and to be hollow. The manner in which they were ..."
3. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
""The effective nozzle pressure and, therefore, the spray from the nozzles of the
percolating filters is controlled by the action of a butterfly valve in the ..."
4. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"The throttle is placed in the mixture out- lit, and the form that is shown is
called a "butterfly valve." It is a disc of metal turning on pivots, ..."
5. Steam Engine Troubles, a Practical Treatise for the Engineer, Telling how to by Hugo Hamkens (1919)
"butterfly valve. Throttle closed by means of a sprocket chain. Throttle closed
by steam pressure. Emergency valve placed over the throttle. ..."
6. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"... give weight enough to the valve to close rapidly when the pressure beneath it
ceases. A butterfly-valve ..."
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