Other Modern Radial Valve Gears for Locomotives A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LOCOMOTIVE VALVE ACTUATING MECHANISM INVENTED BY EGIDE WALSCHAERT With the History of Its Development and Its Evolution into the Mechanically Correct Locomotive Valve Gear of the Present Day. IN FIVE GENERAL DIVISIONS, EMBRACING : Analysis of the Walschaert Valve Motion.—Designing and Erect. ing the Gear.–Proofs of the Superiority of the Walschaert Gear in Locomotive Service. Catechal Questions and Answers for Instruction and Examination. Modern Radial Valve Gears Other than the Walschaert, with Full Explanations, and Questions and Answers relative to Break downs and their Repair of such Gears, while on the Road. BY W.W.WOOD, Air Brake Inspector SCIENCE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED Fully Illustrated with Sketches and Diagrams and Containing Large Folding Plates and Diagrams of Different Types of the Walschaert and Other Radial Valve Motions, with Mov able Cardboard Working Models of the Valves. NEW YORK THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING CO. 4 West 4 5 th Street, COPYRIGHT 1906 AND 1912 BY THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING CO. 289509 Composition. Printing and Electrotyping by PUBLISHERS PRINTING COMPANY, New York, U, S. A. SETTING VALVES WITH THE WALSCHAERT VALVE GEAR--THE THREE PRIMARY TYPES CF Loco- MOTIVE VALVE MOTION—MODERN RADIAL VALVE GEARS OTHER THAN THE WALSCHAERT -THE HOBART-ALLFREE VALVE AND VALVE GEAR, WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON BREAKDOWNS—THE BAKER-PILLIOD VALVE GEAR-THE IMPROVED BAKER-PILLIOD VALVE |