Identifier: airbrakesuptodat00ludy (find matches)
Title: Air brakes, an up-to-date treatise on the Westinghouse air brake as designed for passenger and freight service and for electric cars
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Ludy, Llewellyn V., 1875- (from old catalog) American Technical Society
Subjects: Westinghouse air-brake
Publisher: Chicago, American technical society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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its efficient action for the lives of manypassengers and the safety of thousands of dollars worth of propertyabsolutely depend upon the abihty of these brakes to bring the trainto a stop as desired by the engineer. Such a device is the air brakeand the present equipment is so reliable that railroad accidents arealmost never due to any fault of the brakes. ^ The author has chosen the Westinghouse system as being themost typical and most widely used and has carefully analyzed thevarious types of equipment for freight and passenger service.Copious diagrams indicate the action of the brake under variouspositions of the operating lever and rules for operating and care ofthe equipment make the article especially valuable. The articletreats as well the types of equipment which have been developedespecially for electric cars. The treatment of all of the equipmentis strictly up-to-date and should be of value either to the practicalrailroad man or to the layman who wants the know how of things.
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> O o i ►J § «1 w s O £ H . CO e <i; a. ft ~ Pi ^ fa a, t: ^* ^ 1! S^ ft ^1 w i CO K Pi <^w ^H o < CONTENTS WESTINGHOUSE AIR-BRAKE SYSTEM PAGE General characteristics of system 10 Essential elements 10 Definition of terms 12 Operation of Westinghouse air brake 13 Air compressors 14 Single-stage type 14 Two-stage type 20 Disorders of air compressors 24 Steam compressor governors 25 Main reservoir 31 Valves and valve appliances 32 0-6 automatic brake valve 32 H-6 automatic brake valve 41 S-6 independent brake valve 44 Duplex air gage 47 C-6 single-pressure feed 47 B-6 double-pressure feed valve 50 Plain triple valve 53 Quick-action triple valve 53 Type K freight triple valve 62 Type L triple valve 76 Pressure retaining valve 87 Conductors valve 90 High-speed reducing valve 91 E-6 safety valve 94 Brakes and foundation brake gear 96 General requirements 96 Leverage 99 Automatic slack-adjuster 101 Locomotive driver brakes 104 Locomotive truck brakes 104 MODERN BRairbrakesuptodat00ludy

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