Locomotive catechism; an up-to-date, practical and complete work on the locomotive--treating on the design, construction, repair and running of all kinds of locomotives .. (1908)
Grimshaw, Robert, 1850- [from old catalog] · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 549
ct that end of the slide valve with the exhaustside of the valve and hence with the receiver; so that low-pressure steam is let into that end of the high-pressure cy-linder which is covered by the slide valve, thus partiallyequalizing the pressures on the two sides of the low-pressure 534… … Fig. 343. Von Borries Intercepting Valve. Q. What precaution should be taken with this arrange-ment? A. To have a safety valve on the receiver, to prevent theback pressure on the high-pressure piston being increased,.which would lessen the power of the high-pressure cylinder RICHMOND COMPOUND. 535…
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