Cyclopedia of locomotive engineering, with examination questions and answers; a practical manual on the construction care and management of modern locomotives (1916)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co., pub. for Sears, Roebuck & co. · leaf 177
00 w o 170 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING dowel pin, and machined at the top to receive wings(\V) of the pressure plate. Into the face of the pres-sure plate two grooves are cut with either straight ortaper walls and which register correctly with the cor-responding grooves in the balance plate; these… … Figure 82 Under normal conditions these steel rings hold thebalance plate in alignment with the valve seat, but^under abnormal conditions, such as dry valves, thestrain will be taken by the wing of the balance plate,against the wing of the pressure plate, preventingexcessive contraction of the…
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