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Air Brake, The Its Construction & Working The Science of Railways Kirkman HardCo
Air Brake, The Its Construction and Working The Science of Railways Kirkman
The Air Brake
Its Construction and Working
The Science of Railways
Marshall M. Kirkman
Hard Cover Missing binding edge
707 pages
Copyright 1907
Contents
INTRODUCTIONiii
CHAPTER I.Evolution of the Air Brake 1
CHAPTER II.The Principal Parts 14
CHAPTER III.The Air Pump............ ....... . 17
CHAPTER IV.The Air Pump Governor.. ........ ............ ......43
CHAPTER V.Engineer's Brake Valve ...... ......... ... . . 52
CHAPTER VI.The Main Reservoir ............ ............... .......90
CHAPTER VII. The Duplex Air Gauge 94
CHAPTER VIII. Train Pipe and Couplings 97
CHAPTER IX.Conductor's Valve .............. .......... ......... 99
CHAPTER X.The Triple Valve 100
CHAPTER XI.Auxiliary Reservoir and Brake Cylinder ....... 128
CHAPTER XII.Piston Travel............ .............. ........... 136
CHAPTER XIII. Foundation Brake Gear 140
CHAPTER XIV. Retaining Valve 154
CHAPTER XV. Automatic Slack Adjuster 157
CHAPTER XVI. Air Signaling System162
CHAPTER XV II. High Speed BrakeWestinghouse ............. ....... 169 CHAPTER XVIII. Combined Automatic and Straight Air Engine and Tender Brake...........189
CHAPTER XIX. Calculations for Equalizing Air Pressures 204
CHAPTER XX. Appliances for Aiding in the Handling of Freight
Trains on Grades 210
CHAPTER XXI.Brake Tests ..... ....................... 222
CHAPTER XXII. Piping .................... .......... .............. 224
CHAPTER XXIII. Lubricants. ..... ............ ...... ........ ........226
CHAPTER XXIV. Diseases, Causes, Symptoms and Cures...... 227
CHAPTER XXV. Handling and Care of the Air Brake 315
CHAPTER XXVI. General Instructions to Trainmen, Switchmen, Yard-
men and Car Inspectors 35i
CHAPTER XXVII. General Instructions to Engine-House Foremen and
Inspectors 369
APPENDIX . 371
Drawings showing details of Westinghouse Air Brake 373
Drawings showing details of New York Air Brake 447
Westinghouse "ET" Engine and Tender Brake Equipment 549
Westinghouse Compound Air Pumps 597
Westinghouse Modern Triple Valves 609
New York Locomotive Brake Equipment, Style B2HS 661
INDEX 687
The universal use of the Air Brake on passenger, and its ever increasing use on freight equipment makes a clear understanding of it of vital importance to every one concerned in the movement of trains whether he be an engineer, fireman, trainman or air brake inspector.
- This understanding must consist of a clear knowledge of the principles that govern the mechanical appliances used and of the details of the contrivances adopted to obtain desired results; to this basic knowledge must be added familiarity with the difficulties met with in actual operation and the precise methods by which such difficulties may be overcome or obviated. This field of wide scope and infinite detail this volume covers. From it the student may learn of the construction of the two great systems of air brakes" The Westinghouse" and New York ;" of the functions of the various parts; of the actual troubles that arise day by day in their operation; and of the specific means to be taken to overcome or prevent them.
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