Locomotive engine running and management .. (1899)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 236
a door for the escape of the exhaust steam.This is a very convenient and simple method ofeducting the steam ; and the process helps to balancethe valve, since the rush of escaping steam strikingthe under part of the valve tends to counteract thepressure that the steam in the steam-chest… … Quarter Size. Fig. 6. With a valve of this form, the slightest movementhad the effect of opening one end so that steamwould be admitted to the cylinder, while the other 155 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE RUNNING. end opened the exhaust. By such an arrangementsteam was necessarily admitted to the cylinder…
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