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The science of railways (1904)

Kirkman, Marshall Monroe, 1842-1921 · New York, Chicago, The World Railway Publishing Company · leaf 435

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LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. 417 Gil, and also to gradually feed it to the working parts as the machine moves. The construction is this: A small tube J-3 passes through the bottom of the drum and extends half way up on the inside, to which point the drum is filled with oil. The space abcve the oil line… … Fig. 4. Oiler — Boyer Speed Recorder. eccentric on the upper end of the stationary shaft 1-2, around which the drum revolves. • The plunger does not force the oil, it simply displaces and keeps it high enough to run into the top end of and out through the tube. When the plunger stops moving the…

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