. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . BALDWINS VARIABLE CUT-OFF MOTION. a separate eccentric and having a singleopening, admitted steam through a portin this plate to the lower steam cham-ber. The valve rod of the upper valveterminated in a hook which engagedwith the upper arm of the rocker thus working it acted as a cut-off. FIG. a, FIRST DROP HOOK MOTION. at a fixed part of the stroke, determinedby the setting of the eccentric. APPRECI.\TE VALVE OF USING STE.\MEXPANSIVELY. By this time American locomotivebuilders had
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . BALDWINS VARIABLE CUT-OFF MOTION. a separate eccentric and having a singleopening, admitted steam through a portin this plate to the lower steam cham-ber. The valve rod of the upper valveterminated in a hook which engagedwith the upper arm of the rocker thus working it acted as a cut-off. FIG. a, FIRST DROP HOOK MOTION. at a fixed part of the stroke, determinedby the setting of the eccentric. APPRECI.\TE VALVE OF USING STE.\MEXPANSIVELY. By this time American locomotivebuilders had come to realize the impor-tance of using steam expansively, and IS6 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING April, 1906. most of them were putting variable ex-pansion gears upon their engines. Afterusing the half stroke cut-oflf for abouteight years, Mr. Baldwin in 1853 intro-duced the variable cut-off arrangementillustrated in Fig. 23. Concerning this motion Mr. Baldwin
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