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  • throttle valve spindle respectively. The pilot valves spindle is also connected to the same lever at some intermediate position. Both the pilot valves cover...
    7 KB (988 words) - 17:51, 5 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Scuba cylinder valve
    opening and closing a valve orifice machined into the valve body, by turning the valve knob to drive the valve spindle which moves the valve seat towards or...
    47 KB (5,214 words) - 17:14, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Needle valve
    needle valve uses a tapered pin to gradually open a space for fine control of flow. The flow can be controlled and regulated with the use of a spindle. A...
    4 KB (544 words) - 18:10, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brass instrument valve
    rotary valve works using a short circular rotor (also known as a stock, or "plug") housed in a larger cylindrical valve casing, and rotating on a spindle. Elbow-shaped...
    13 KB (1,465 words) - 11:48, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Willans engine
    features of single-acting cylinders and a central spindle valve shared between all the cylinders of that spindle. The cylinders are arranged as tandem compounds...
    17 KB (1,803 words) - 14:50, 18 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Holcroft valve gear
    the valve spindles. Whilst working for the Great Western Railway at Swindon Works, Holcroft schemed out and patented (in 1909) a conjugated valve gear...
    7 KB (989 words) - 02:22, 8 June 2021
  • Thumbnail for Trofimoff valve
    piston valve: two valve pistons with sealing rings, carried on a valve spindle driven by the valve gear. The difference with a Trofimoff valve is that...
    5 KB (672 words) - 19:59, 19 May 2017
  • Thumbnail for Gab valve gear
    that in turn drove a strap and a long rod to the valve's actuating spindle. This was a simple valve gear but worked well for rotative engines that ran...
    8 KB (1,093 words) - 00:10, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slide valve
    central D-sectioned piston. This valve worked by "connecting the upper and lower valves so as to be worked by one rod or spindle, and in making the stem or...
    3 KB (325 words) - 04:36, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Axial flow valve
    the 1980s. The Thayer Valve uses a conical rotor (although the 1978 patent and early prototypes were cylindrical), with its spindle rotation axis parallel...
    8 KB (997 words) - 22:14, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piston valve (steam engine)
    enabling a locomotive to move under its own power. The valve consists of two piston heads on a common spindle moving inside a steam chest, which is essentially...
    8 KB (1,049 words) - 10:28, 30 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3
    conjugated valve gear derived the motion of the inside valve spindle from the two outside valve spindles: this eliminated an inaccessible middle set of valve gear...
    44 KB (5,179 words) - 13:56, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joy valve gear
    movement is translated into the horizontal movement required by the valve spindle by a die block moving in a slide which can be varied in inclination...
    5 KB (510 words) - 19:44, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stephenson valve gear
    eccentrics) instead of concave. Gooch valve gear had the disadvantage of angularity between the valve spindle and the eccentric rod in full gear, whereas...
    14 KB (1,942 words) - 15:22, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gresley conjugated valve gear
    opposite end of the valve spindles from the valve gear, as the valve spindles lengthened with the heat of steam in the cylinders the valve timing would be...
    11 KB (1,503 words) - 04:35, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Throttle position sensor
    monitor the throttle body valve position for the ECU of an engine. The sensor is usually located on the butterfly spindle/shaft, so that it can directly...
    4 KB (531 words) - 00:19, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rotary valve
    A rotary valve (also called rotary-motion valve) is a type of valve in which the rotation of a passage or passages in a transverse plug regulates the flow...
    17 KB (1,948 words) - 05:43, 10 July 2024
  • failure of the unusual derived motion design. The valve gear was insufficiently robust and the valve spindle guides (originally cast iron) had to be replaced...
    7 KB (597 words) - 21:58, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Euonymus
    Euonymus (redirect from Spindle-tree)
    species and between different English-speaking countries, but include spindle (or spindle tree), burning-bush, strawberry-bush, wahoo, wintercreeper, or simply...
    8 KB (453 words) - 12:29, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cylinder (locomotive)
    by means of a rocking shaft from the first cylinder's valve spindle since the required valve events at the second cylinder are a mirror image of the first...
    10 KB (1,359 words) - 03:40, 8 May 2024
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