A textbook on the locomotive and the air brake (1901)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, Pa., International textbook co · leaf 360
n the link pin a and the cam-screw pin hcan be changed by means of the cam-screw c, and it is by meansof this screw that the piston travel is adjusted. To shorten thetravel, the distance between the pins is lengthened. In taking up the slack of the brake shoes, care must be exer-cised to lengthen… … 40 THE NEW YORK AIR BRAKE. § 17 52. Outside Equalized Driver Brake.—In Fig. 2 aregiven two views of the outside equalized driver brake asgenerally used at the present time on engines having three ormore pairs of drivers, («) being a side view and (b) a planview. In this type of brake, the piston is…
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