Locomotive engine running and management : a treatise on locomotive engines, showing their performance in running different kinds of trains with economy and dispatch; also directions regarding the care, management, and repairs of locomotives and all their connections (1888)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 226
escape of the exhaust steam. This is a very conven-ient and simple method of educting the steam; andthe process helps to balance the valve, since the rushof escaping steam striking the under part of the valvetends to counteract the pressure that the steam in thesteam-chest continually exerts on the… … Quarter Size. Fig. 6. of this form, the slightest movement had the effect ofopening one end so that steam would be admitted tothe cylinder, while the other end opened the exhaust.By such an arrangement, steam was necessarily admit-ted to the cylinder during the whole length of thestroke; since…
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