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 358
part whose operation gives the brake itsautomatic action. Those who have opposed this formof brake have made great objection to the complicatednature of the triple valve. But some familiarity withthe device shows that it is far from being complex,considering the functions it performs. It is merely… … 334 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE RUNNING. chamber B, and carrying with it the slide-valve 6.Air enters from the main pipe through the four-waycock 13 into the drain-cup A, and passes to the cham-ber B, forcing the piston up, and uncovering a smallfeeding-groove in the upper part of the chamber, whichpermits…
Locomotives
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