. Locomotive text for engineers and firemen; a complete treatise on the engine, electric head-light and standard code of train rules . FIG. 1-PLATE 31. connected to a passageway leading to the sight feedglasses. The steam passes through these equalizing tubes andmaintains a uniform pressure on the water in the sight 120 LOCOMOTIVE LUBRICATORS. feed glasses. Any surplus water condenser is freeto pass through the equalizing tubes to the sight feedglasses, thus filling them up with water. The condenser. FIG. 2—PLATE 31. is connected with the oil reservoir (Fig. i) through a pas-sage and wa


. Locomotive text for engineers and firemen; a complete treatise on the engine, electric head-light and standard code of train rules . FIG. 1-PLATE 31. connected to a passageway leading to the sight feedglasses. The steam passes through these equalizing tubes andmaintains a uniform pressure on the water in the sight 120 LOCOMOTIVE LUBRICATORS. feed glasses. Any surplus water condenser is freeto pass through the equalizing tubes to the sight feedglasses, thus filling them up with water. The condenser. FIG. 2—PLATE 31. is connected with the oil reservoir (Fig. i) through a pas-sage and water-valve 7 and water-tube 23. The lowerend of this tube opens into a pocket in the bottom of theoil reservoir, as shown in Fig. 2. When the water is LOCOMOTIVE LUBRICATORS. 121 drawn off through cock 17, this pocket remains full ofwater. As the lower end of tube 23 is below the sur-face of the water in the pocket, the oil cannot rise in the STEAM


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