. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ccur. Should the slackof the train be stretched out when anapplication is made, the same as it iswhen the locomotive is drawing a train,then the difference in the time of re-1 Some English Air=Brake Designs. It is always interesting to note howsomebody else does the same things wedo ourselves, especially when their waysare quite different from ours. The ac-companying drawings show how theEnglish Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. inLondon assemble the parts of their sev-eral devices. Figs. I and 2 ar
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ccur. Should the slackof the train be stretched out when anapplication is made, the same as it iswhen the locomotive is drawing a train,then the difference in the time of re-1 Some English Air=Brake Designs. It is always interesting to note howsomebody else does the same things wedo ourselves, especially when their waysare quite different from ours. The ac-companying drawings show how theEnglish Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. inLondon assemble the parts of their sev-eral devices. Figs. I and 2 are views of the differentarrangement of the equalizing reservoirsfor the brake valve. Fig. 3 shows a cut of their quick-actiontriple valve, which is essentially the sameas our American design, with the excep-tion of the three-way cock in the lowerpart of the triple and whose positionsare. quick action, automatic, plain auto-matic and cut out. Fig. 4 shows this triple valve in placeon a freight auxiliary. As will be noted,there is no cut-out cock in the crossoverpipe, the three-way cock in the lower. FIG. 3. lease would not cause a shock. Theslack, however, when an applicationis made, generally bunches toward theengine, the same as it is when the en-gine is backing the train; then, withbrakes releasing earlier on the head end April, 1903. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOIIVE ENGINEERING 177 than on the rear, the slack is due to thereaction of the draw bar springs, whichwere compressed more or less, due tothe slack bunching, runs out quickly un- assumc the cord is just strong enoughto stand the shock and permit the largerweight to pull the smaller one alongwith it. Now increase the larger weight
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