Exhaust-Steam-Actuating Damper-Regulator. (open access)

Exhaust-Steam-Actuating Damper-Regulator.

Patent for exhaust-steam-actuating damper-regulator, including instructions and illustrations. This invention improves oil burning equipment for locomotives by "operating the dampers of the air inlet box to automatically close the dampers when the locomotive is standing and to open the dampers when the locomotive is running." (lines 12-16).
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Gilman, Benoist P.
System: The Portal to Texas History