. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. time uniform,brake pipe air also enters, or rather thecharging is augmented by the addition ofport \V. The take-up reservoir is chargedthrough port A, cavity n in the cut-outslide valve and port c. This flow of aircontinues until the reservoirs mentionedarc equal to brake pipe pres-sure. .At tliis time, the retaining valve the load cylinder exhaust port closed,then load cylinder and reduction reser-voir pressure would flow from port wthrough port / to the cut-out slide valve,then through ; and r* to cavity it of thetriple slide valve, then again
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. time uniform,brake pipe air also enters, or rather thecharging is augmented by the addition ofport \V. The take-up reservoir is chargedthrough port A, cavity n in the cut-outslide valve and port c. This flow of aircontinues until the reservoirs mentionedarc equal to brake pipe pres-sure. .At tliis time, the retaining valve the load cylinder exhaust port closed,then load cylinder and reduction reser-voir pressure would flow from port wthrough port / to the cut-out slide valve,then through ; and r* to cavity it of thetriple slide valve, then again to the cut-out slide valve througli ports /> and />,also d and d through cavity k and finallyport a to the retaining valve and at-mosphere. As empty brake cylinder pressurealso flows through port r to cavity n ofthe triple slide valve, two exhaust outletsor passages are provided between cavityII and cavity k of the cut-out slide valve. When the equipment is charged and abrake application is desired, brake pipe CmangeToveR valve. BfUKE PIPE QLTICK SKRViri:. CH.\NGE OVKK \ .\ IN KMPTY POSITION. locked in position, until the pressures aredepleted. The triple valve is shown in retardedrelease position which is only possible atthe head end of the long train and whenthe auxiliary reservoir is charged towithin about 3 pounds of the brake pipepressure spring 33 returns it to normalrelease and charging position. The flow of air in charging is the samein both retarded and full release posi-tions, and referring to Fig. 1. brake pipepressure having forced the triple valve being Huiu-il the empty brake cyl-inder is open to the atmosphere throughport r, cavity ii in the triple slide-valve,port /> thence to cavity k in the cut-outslide valve and through port o to the re-taining valve and atmosphere, while theload cylinder and reduction reservoir areopen to the atmosphere through port uvalve 25 and port w past valve 19. , the brake cylinders containedconsiderable
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