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 191
rd until such time as the reversing plate 18engages the shoulder on the rod 21, raising the rod andvalve 22 upward, closing the exhaust port M and openingthe admission port N, allowing live steam to pass to cham-ber D, thus equalizing the pressure on both sides of thelarge piston, when the pressure… … Fig. 5. Diagram of 8%,-Inch Cross Compound Compressor. The High Pressure Steam (Low Pressure Air) Piston on Its Downward Stroke WESTINGHOtJSE AIR BRAKE 189 pass out through port C, the cavity in the valve, and portD to the upper end of the low pressure cylinder 8. Themovement of the main steam…
Locomotives · Westinghouse air-brake · New York air-brake
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