Locomotive text for engineers and firemen; a complete treatise on the engine, electric head-light and standard code of train rules (1908)
National correspondence school of railroading, Chicago. [from old catalog] · [Chicago] · leaf 41
tends to bring about a better circulation of theboiler. DRAFT APPLIANCES. The draft appliances of a locomotive (Fig. 11) in-clude diaphragm (1),petticoat-pipe (2), sleeve (3), net-ting (4), exhaust nozzle (5) and exhaust (6). The diaphragm is a sheet of steel fastened at anangle just above the top… … FIG. 11. locomotives, which when raised or lowered governsthe draft through the tubes. Raising the diaphragmdecreases the draft through the lower and increases thedraft through the upper flues. The petticoat-pipe (2), which is cylindrical in shape,is set directly over the exhaust nozzle (5), and…
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