. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ior to that given with other formsof nozzles designed in the past for ac-complishing the same purpose. Fre-quently, since the adoption of this nozzle,the steaming capacity of locomotives inroad service has been considerably im-proved by substituting it in place of an-other form of nozzle. The new type of nozzle possesses afeature worthy of mention which gives itan advantage over the circular type, inthat it is impossible to either increase ordecrease its opening without breaking thewelded pro
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ior to that given with other formsof nozzles designed in the past for ac-complishing the same purpose. Fre-quently, since the adoption of this nozzle,the steaming capacity of locomotives inroad service has been considerably im-proved by substituting it in place of an-other form of nozzle. The new type of nozzle possesses afeature worthy of mention which gives itan advantage over the circular type, inthat it is impossible to either increase ordecrease its opening without breaking thewelded projections. This, no doubt, willeliminate any tendency for an incompe-tent person to make unauthorizedchanges in the size of a standard nozzle, By F. A. GOODFELLOW Forenun Locomotive Testing Plant, Pennsylvania Railroad, exhaust which has been applied to a locomotive;an occurrence which hitherto has hap-pened. This nozzle is fastened to thecolumn without endeavoring to place itin a particular position with referenceto the location of the projections. Ex-periments have proven that this does not FRONT. BACK PLAN VIEW OF IMPROVED EXHAUSTNOZZLE SHOWING PROJECTIONS. alter its performance and therefore, thereis no possibility of the nozzle being in-correctly applied. A number of tests were made in theLocomotive Testing Plant with Atlantic,Pacific and Mikado types of locomotives,using the standard circular and four in-ternal projection nozzles.
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