The blastpipe is part of the exhaust system of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokebox beneath the chimney...

through the blastpipe, which is located within the smokebox. The steam is ejected through the chimney, again drawing the fire. The blastpipe is what produces...

fire. Credit for the invention of the blastpipe is disputed, though Stephenson used it as early as 1814. The blastpipe worked well on the multi-tube boiler...

They may also be shaped into hoppers, for easy cleaning during disposal. Blastpipe Part of the exhaust system that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders...

where the conventional single opening is duplicated, together with the blastpipe beneath it. Although the internal openings form two circles, the outside...

contracted nozzle called a blastpipe, so as to achieve the desired velocity through the chimney. Pressure drop through the blastpipe nozzle was subtracted...

attached to the frames. The smokebox housed the five-nozzle Lemaître blastpipe arranged in a circle within a large-diameter chimney. Bulleid designed...

As the final exhaust was at negligible pressure, the original smokebox blastpipe had to be replaced by an electric draught fan in the smokebox. Performance...

suction draught and a correspondingly better use of energy. The existing blastpipe in a locomotive is replaced by several, small, fan-shaped, diverging blast...

deliver any noticeable benefit was the fitting of 92178 with a double blastpipe and chimney during its construction. Following delivery in September 1957...

formal development as the injector, in the form of the arrangement of the blastpipe and chimney in the locomotive smokebox. The sketch on the right shows...

to increase the draught through the fire. It usually consists of the blastpipe (or first stage nozzle), smokebox, and chimney, although later designs...

United States Navy A device to increase the draught of a locomotive, see blastpipe Blowers, a surname This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

chimney, by way of a nozzle called a blastpipe, creating the familiar "chuffing" sound of the steam locomotive. The blastpipe is placed at a strategic point...

correctly aligned steam blastpipe. Hackworth is usually acknowledged as the inventor of this concept. From 1830 onwards the blastpipe was employed by the...

: 221  This included a new, state-of-the-art double Kylchap chimney and blastpipe, allowing the smoke to be distributed more freely.: 224  However, the...

road vehicles; and laid claim—still discussed and disputed today—to the blastpipe, a key component in the success of steam locomotives, engines, and other...

passenger accommodation, as opposed to one, increasing passenger capacity. Blastpipe A part of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders...

attached to the frames. The smokebox housed the five-nozzle Lemaître blastpipe arranged in a circle within a large-diameter chimney. As with the Merchant...

representative of the British Caprotti company, recommended the use of the Kylchap blastpipe, which could have coped with the fierce exhaust blasts experienced with...

1942. Sir Nigel Gresley gained its double chimney and Kylchap double blastpipe on 13 December 1957. 60007 also gained AWS equipment on 27 September 1950...

steam is that it is no longer available to draw the fire, by use of the blastpipe. The draught must thus be generated instead by a steam-driven fan. Where...

on No. 737 using the King Arthur chimney design and reduced-diameter blastpipes. This proved successful, and all "Urie N15s" were modified over the period...

A4 Pacifics initially built with a double chimney and double Kylchap blastpipe, the rest of the class acquiring it in the late 1950s. 4902 Seagull was...

diameter, which were half embedded within the boiler. The boiler had a blastpipe in the chimney. The single-flue boiler had a lower heating surface-to-water...

diesel and LMS brake van. Hull, John (Autumn 1992). "How it all began". Blastpipe (38): 12. Chris, Leigh (March 1994). "Back to School with the GER". Steam...

 38. "A new name for the Society". Blastpipe (31): 4. Autumn 1990. "Notes and News: We are officially open". Blastpipe (35): 4. Autumn 1991. Hardy, Sarah...

and draught on the fire, with the blastpipe being too large in relation to the size of the chimney. The blastpipe's area was reduced by a quarter, while...

to them such as the fitting of a multiple valve regulator and a double blastpipe and chimney, together with Kylchap cowls. Afterwards, the five A2s, including...

and flames from entering the cab through the firebox door – when the blastpipe is insufficiently effective, for example when a locomotive is stationary...