Kirkman, Marshall M. (Marshall Monroe), 1842-1921 · New York and Chicago, The World railway publishing company · leaf 355
AUTOMATIC AIR AND STEAM COUPLER. The illustrations here given show a device thatautomatically couples and uncouples the air brakepipes on freight trains, and the air signal and steamheating pipes as well on passenger trains. Thisdevice has been in successful operation on a numberof passenger and… … Fig. 1.Automatic Air and Steam Coupler. The construction, manner of attaching andoperation of this device may be described as follows:The apparatus is interchangeable, there being norights and lefts. The coupling head consists of acasting with openings on its face to receive the regis-tering…
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