. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r thehigh-pressure cap. As has been explainedthe electric portion will be bolted at thepoint on the bracket that the blankingflange is now located. Opposite the blanking flange, the pipeconnections to the brake pipe, brake cyl-inder, and reservoirs are made, so that per one of these one inch tap holes is forthe pipe connection to the service reser-voir, the next one, or the one in the mid-dle of the bracket is for the small emerg-ency reservoir connection, the next one isfor the brake cylinde
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r thehigh-pressure cap. As has been explainedthe electric portion will be bolted at thepoint on the bracket that the blankingflange is now located. Opposite the blanking flange, the pipeconnections to the brake pipe, brake cyl-inder, and reservoirs are made, so that per one of these one inch tap holes is forthe pipe connection to the service reser-voir, the next one, or the one in the mid-dle of the bracket is for the small emerg-ency reservoir connection, the next one isfor the brake cylinder pipe connectionand the lower one is the brake pipe con-nection. It has been stated that there but onesize of universal valve for all sizes ofbrake cylinders and that the flow of airfor charging the reservoirs was primarilythe same as all auxiliary reservoir vol-umes were the same regardless as to thesize of the brake cylinder, however theflow of air to and from the brake cylin- AU^lLlABY BRAKE LARGE EMERGENCY SERVICE RESERVOIR- RPE \ RESERVOIR RESERVOIR BRAKE SMALL EMERGENCY CYLINDER / RESERVOIR. I9RAKE CYLINDER-EXHAUST UNIVERSAL IN AND CHARGING POSITION. by a proper combinations of mechanism,to all conditions of passenger service. We mention the foregoing so that ourreaders will understand that this type ofbrake was designed and manufactured tomeet a condition on the PennsylvaniaRailroad, and similar condition may ormay not develop on other roads, but inthe majority of cases certain ones arepresent even if not recognized. In last months issue the objects of thereservoirs used was explained and nowthe bracket which is a fixture on the car,contains two chambers, the quick actionchamber and the quick action closingchamber their duties will be explained any part of the universal valve may beremoved without disturbing any pipejoints. It will be noted that there are 8 pipeconnections or pipe taps used in thebracket, 5 one inch, 2 one-half inch andone }i inch, the
Size: 1966px × 1271px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectrailroa, bookyear1901
