Patent Model - Improvement in Operating-Cocks for Fluid-Pressure Brakes
Maker and role
George Westinghouse, Jr. (b.1846, d.1914), Patentee
Production date
Dec 23 1879
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Brass, metal, wood
Measurements
4 1/2 x 15 1/4 x 8 1/2" (11.4 x 38.7 x 21.6cm)
Description
Westinghouse's patent describes a device he calls a "cock" partly "for convenience, and partly because it is intended, in a steam-pressure brake, to take the place and perform the functions of the operating-cock in a compressed-air brake, which functions are, in the present case, to admit the fluid-pressure to the brake-pipes and cylinders fast or slow, as may be desired,..." (Patent number 222,803)
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Object number
61.47.388
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