Locomotive appliances . ioned by the spring G), andthe blower goes to work automat-ically. In the rare emergency of wishingto keep the blower at work when theengine is using steam it is only nec-essary to open the screw valve Jand plug the exhaust opening I,under which circumstances the pistonE E will be in equilibrium with thesame steam pressure above and belowit, and the boiler pressure in theblow-er pipewill open the valve F, and theblower will go to work and remain atwork (whether the throttle is open orHue Automatic steam shut) as long as the blower valve in Blower. <p (External view.)
Locomotive appliances . ioned by the spring G), andthe blower goes to work automat-ically. In the rare emergency of wishingto keep the blower at work when theengine is using steam it is only nec-essary to open the screw valve Jand plug the exhaust opening I,under which circumstances the pistonE E will be in equilibrium with thesame steam pressure above and belowit, and the boiler pressure in theblow-er pipewill open the valve F, and theblower will go to work and remain atwork (whether the throttle is open orHue Automatic steam shut) as long as the blower valve in Blower. <p (External view.) the cab is left open. This automatic steam blower thus provides a meansby which the judicious and economical use of the oldblower valve may be accomplished—the smoke andgases from a passenger engine may be largely pre-vented from trailing over the train when the engine isshut off—thus greatly increasing the comfort ofpassengers, and particularly those who use trainswhich are running in local and suburban LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES The crews of allengines, wheth-er passenger,freight or shift-ing, may be re-lieved of the an-noying andharmful effects ofsmoke and gasescoming into thecab when enginesare shut off; thisis very annoyingeven when coal isused as a fuel, butalmost intoler-able when coke isused; besidesthis, it seems tobe necessary tomake some pro-vision for keep-ing a coke firebright when theengine is notworking, and thisdevice provides apositive and auto-matic means ofaccomplishingthis. Finally,the automaticaction of this
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