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 245
nt, as shown in figure 30. However, during the time theequipment is charging up, as described, a small amount ofair is passing around the supply piston 8, which is madeslightly smaller than the bushing, which it operates in thisleakage of air past this piston, can pass from chamber Gthrough port H,… … WESTIXGHOUSE AIR BRAKE 243 11. This flow of air keeps up until the pressure in chamberL on the left of the diaphragm becomes greater than thetension of the adjusting spring 17. when the diaphragmspindle and diaphragm will move to the right. The regulat-ing spring 13 will then force the regulating…
Locomotives · Westinghouse air-brake · New York air-brake
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