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  • 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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    Smokebox (section Blastpipe)
    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...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Nord. The Lemaître exhaust (échappement Lemaître) – which featured a blastpipe with five nozzles in a circular pattern exhausting up a large-diameter...
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  • as the 'Kylala spreader' involved the insertion of four nozzles in the blastpipe of steam locomotives. The system was originally devised to reduce spark-throwing...
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    correctly aligned steam blastpipe. Hackworth is usually acknowledged as the inventor of this concept. From 1830 onwards the blastpipe was employed by the...
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    strange rolling gait due to its vertical cylinders and the draft from the blastpipe was, in Hackworth's trademark style, very strong, so most of the coke...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Steam Railway (167): 38. Blastpipe. No. 30. Summer 1990. p. 2. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) Blastpipe. No. 30. Summer 1990. p. 4...
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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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    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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  • the Belgian engineer Maurice Lemaître. The Lemaître exhaust featured a blastpipe with 5 nozzles in a circular pattern exhausting up a large-diameter chimney...
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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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