Treatise covering operation, defects and remedies of the locomotive, Westinghouse and New York air-brake, also questions and answers to first, second and third year's progressive examinations (1917)
MacDonald, J. R. [from old catalog] · [Chicago] The author · leaf 187
e shoulder J on the reversing rod, moving it andthe reversing valve up, closing the exhaust port H andopening the admission port G, allowing steam to pass intochamber D on the outer end of the large main valve piston.This equalizes the pressure on both sides of the piston.When the steam pressure… … T Discha/ye Fig. 3. The 9%-Inch Air Compressor (Diagrammatic View),Down Stroke WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE 185 end of the steam cylinder, causing the piston to movedownward at the same time the steam from the lower endof the cylinder can pass out through port B cavity B in theslide valve and exhaust…
Locomotives · Westinghouse air-brake · New York air-brake
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