. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . please write on oneside of the paper only. Write clearly andconcisely. Use enough words to makeyourself understood, but no more. Tooinan\ and 00 few words are equallyobjectionable. 98 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. Radley Automatic Opening Angle Cock Tiie Proper Test for an Engineer to and Hose Coupling. Editors: I am. sending you enclosed photo-graphs of the Radley automatic hosecoupling which has been experimentedwith and ordered for a portion of the pas-senger equipment of this road. The pho-tographs give a
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . please write on oneside of the paper only. Write clearly andconcisely. Use enough words to makeyourself understood, but no more. Tooinan\ and 00 few words are equallyobjectionable. 98 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. Radley Automatic Opening Angle Cock Tiie Proper Test for an Engineer to and Hose Coupling. Editors: I am. sending you enclosed photo-graphs of the Radley automatic hosecoupling which has been experimentedwith and ordered for a portion of the pas-senger equipment of this road. The pho-tographs give a very good idea of theprinciple and construction of the coup-ling. In this device the ordinary angle valve Make for Train-Line Leaks. Editors: About eight out of ten men, when askedthe proper way to tell whether a trainline is tight, will reply, When chargedup, lap your valve, and as the main reser-voir is now separated from the train line,the black gage hand will gradually tallif there are any train line leaks. Thisis true, but is not the best way, as can beshown by every day VIEW OF RADLETS AUTOMATIC OPENING ANGLE COCK AND HOSECOUPLING COUPLED DP. has been replaced by a rotary valve lo-cated in the coupling itself. On one sideof the handle, which is attached to the ro-tary, is the segment of a gear, which en-gages with a similar segment on the outerflange of the opposite coupling, so thatwhen the hose is coupled or uncoupledby hand the valves are opened andclosed automatically, making it im-possible to forget to cut in the air whenpicking up cars or coupling on a the hose is coupled at all the air mustbe cut in. This would eliminate the dan-ger of not having the air cut in, a cause towhich many accidents have been at-tributed. At a glance we might think that if atrain broke in two, the valves would close;but in order to move the valve, the coup-ling must rotate, the same as whencoupling or uncoupling by hand. So if atrain should break in two they would pull
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