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 725
t discharges the air from the pipe betweenit and the automatic brake valve. Beyond the main-reservoir cut-out cock3 the reser-voir pipe has four branches, one of which runs to theautomatic brake valve, one to the feed valve, one to thereducing valve, and one to the distributing valve. As aresult,… … a HH HO i—ii—i a* OS d ET BRAKE EQUIPMENT 673 matic brake valve has a branch to the top of the excess-pressure head of the duplex pump governor. The third branch of the reservoir pipe connects withthe reducing valve. Air at the pressure for which thisvalve is set (45 pounds) is thus supplied to the…
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