Merchant, F. W. (Francis Walter), 1855-1937, Chant, Clarence Augustus, 1865-1956 · Toronto : Copp Clark · leaf 135
her applications cannot be mentioned here. 124 APPLICATIONS OF THE LAWS OF GASES 139. Air-Brakes. Compressed air is used to set the brakeson railway cars. Fig. 154 shows the principal working partsof the Westinghouse air-brakes in common use in this country.A steam-driven air-compressor pump A and… … Fio. 154.—Air brakes in use on railway trains. with the brake-shoe, (b) a secondary tank E, and (c) a systemof connecting pipes and a special valve F which automaticallyconnects B with E when the air from B is admitted to thepipes, but which connects E with the cylinder C when thepressure of the…
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