. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed by the Ward EquipmentCompany, of New York. .•K very markedfeature of this lock is that it takes upthe lost motion due to wear. The lockas seen in our illustrations is a neat littlemalleable iron arm pivoted to the couplerat one end and stretching out a couple offingers to interlock with the finger of thearm on the other steam coupler. Wherethe fingers Interlock, a taper key is driventhrough all four and the couplers can al-ways be drawn up tight together withoutreference to wear. The taper
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed by the Ward EquipmentCompany, of New York. .•K very markedfeature of this lock is that it takes upthe lost motion due to wear. The lockas seen in our illustrations is a neat littlemalleable iron arm pivoted to the couplerat one end and stretching out a couple offingers to interlock with the finger of thearm on the other steam coupler. Wherethe fingers Interlock, a taper key is driventhrough all four and the couplers can al-ways be drawn up tight together withoutreference to wear. The taper key orcotter, if you like to call it that, is itselfinteresting. It is made of spring steeldoubled over and tapered along the free points naturally spring openso that when the key is in place the tapersides draw the fingers of the lock tight,but the springiness of the key itself keepsit in place so that it cannot work or jarout. A neat little chain secures the keyto one of the lock arms. The whole arrangenient of key. arms and fingers mayfairlv be calle<l .1 handy little device, as. one tap of the car inspectors hammer re-leases the lock. While we are on the subject of thiskind of engine equipment, we may saythe Ward reducing valve possesses sev-eral features of interest. Steam entersthrough a iV^-in. pipe and leaves by a 2-in. pipe. .\ diaphragm under spring pres-sure governs the double disk balance valve,in the usual way. In order to prevent in-jury to the ( the bottom of the
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