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 325
F.The upward movement of the high pressure piston, causinga partial vacuum to be formed in the lower end of cylinderF. The atmospheric pressure then raises the lower receiv-ing valve N, filling the cylinder with air at about atmos-pheric pressure. The air that was discharged from theupper end of… … Fig. 3. Low Pressure Piston Moving Downward. High PressurePiston at Best NEW YORK AIR BRAKE 323 reservoir, past the upper final discharge valve M, thus avolume of air at about three atmospheres will be passinginto the main reservoir at each stroke of the high pressurepiston. The low pressure piston…
Locomotives · Westinghouse air-brake · New York air-brake
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