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In his patent application, Westinghouse refers to his 'triple-valve device' because of the three component valvular parts comprising it: the diaphragm-operated poppet valve feeding reservoir air to the brake cylinder, the reservoir charging valve, and the brake cylinder release valve. Westinghouse soon improved the device by removing the poppet ...
By November, J&T had raised an additional US$ 2.5 billion, with a valuation of US$ 20 billion and investments from Boyu Capital, Hillhouse Capital Group, Sequoia Capital China, and Tencent Holdings. Reports indicate that J&T is planning to go public in Hong Kong in 2022, [4] [8] and that CICC, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are preparing ...
Soo Line 346 in 1961, showing the Kinkan-Ripken arm on the connecting rod at the right hand edge of the picture Kingan-Ripken valve gear. This is a Walschaerts-type gear in which the combination lever is linked to an arm on the connecting rod, near its small end, instead of to the crosshead.
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The gas-cooling throttling process is commonly exploited in refrigeration processes such as liquefiers in air separation industrial process. [7] [8] In hydraulics, the warming effect from Joule–Thomson throttling can be used to find internally leaking valves as these will produce heat which can be detected by thermocouple or thermal-imaging ...
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There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, [13] whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches [14] (known as the "potter cord"); [15] however the plug tree device (the first ...
A diving bell is a rigid chamber used to transport divers from the surface to depth and back in open water, usually for the purpose of performing underwater work. The most common types are the open-bottomed wet bell and the closed bell, which can maintain an internal pressure greater than the external ambient. [1]