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...
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Stephenson's Rocket (section Blastpipe)
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...
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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...
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Double chimney (section Kylchap blastpipes)
where the conventional single opening is duplicated, together with the blastpipe beneath it. Although the internal openings form two circles, the outside...
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contracted nozzle called a blastpipe, so as to achieve the desired velocity through the chimney. Pressure drop through the blastpipe nozzle was subtracted...
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attached to the frames. The smokebox housed the five-nozzle Lemaître blastpipe arranged in a circle within a large-diameter chimney. Bulleid designed...
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United States Navy A device to increase the draught of a locomotive, see blastpipe Blowers, a surname This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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to increase the draught through the fire. It usually consists of the blastpipe (or first stage nozzle), smokebox, and chimney, although later designs...
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suction draught and a correspondingly better use of energy. The existing blastpipe in a locomotive is replaced by several, small, fan-shaped, diverging blast...
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deliver any noticeable benefit was the fitting of 92178 with a double blastpipe and chimney during its construction. Following delivery in September 1957...
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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...
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: 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...
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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...
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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...
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passenger accommodation, as opposed to one, increasing passenger capacity. Blastpipe A part of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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were experimentally fitted with an early version of the Kylala variable blastpipe. One locomotive appeared to perform better as a result and the other worse...
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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...
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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...
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representative of the British Caprotti company, recommended the use of the Kylchap blastpipe, which could have coped with the fierce exhaust blasts experienced with...
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superheater elements 1+1⁄4 in (32 mm) diameter. The single blastpipe was replaced with a double blastpipe and chimney to provide adequate gas velocity in the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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indicated that the locomotive's power was compromised by its single blastpipe, a double blastpipe and chimney were installed.: 38–42 On 26 February 1939, a retest...
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life of steam locomotives. Changes made included installing a double blastpipe and exhaust system which brought a 30 percent increase in the boiler's...
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and flames from entering the cab through the firebox door – when the blastpipe is insufficiently effective, for example when a locomotive is stationary...
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