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 357
ng main reservoir air to pass up aroundthis valve into the brake cylinder at C until the pressure inchamber B is slightly greater than the pressure in chamberD, when the piston will move upward, allowing the admis-sion valve 1 and 1A to seat, preventing any more air fromentering the brake cylinder… … TO STRAIGHTAIR BRAKE VALVE TO AUTOMATICBRAKE VALVE Fig. 18. Automatic Control Valve, Eelease Position NEW YORK AIR BRAKE 355 pressure, the equalizing reservoir control chamber and cyl-inder and brake cylinder will equalize at about fifty pounds. Figure 20 is a view of the control valve in service…
Locomotives · Westinghouse air-brake · New York air-brake
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