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 366
seat, and cutting offthe supply of steam to the pump. When the pressure in the train-pipe is diminished byapplying the brakes, the diaphragm is restored to theposition shown by the action of the spring 16. Thevalve 13 is seated by the spring 12; and the steam-pressure, passing through the port C,… … Fig. 34 b. THE EAMES VACUUM BRAKE. 341 CHAPTER XXV.THE EAMES VACUUM BRAKE. OPERATION OF THE BRAKE. The Vacuum Brake, as the name implies, is operatedby means of a vacuum which is formed in the connec-tions that act the part of the cyHnder in the air-brake.With an air-brake, compressed air is made…
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