General Signal Corporation

Knorr Brake Holding Corporation

Walter E Rojecki

Thomas H Engle

Lawrence E Vaughn

Glen O Bohusch

Robert Gayfer

An empty-load device, having in a single housing, a sensing piston and a ratio piston interconnected by a push rod which senses load. A ratio valve, including a valving element and valve seat, is mounted on and travels with the ratio piston and is opened by the push rod. The ratio valve is connected to the ratio piston by a spring such that the push rod engages the ratio valve to open the ratio valve and position the ratio piston via the spring.

Empty/load valve

An empty-load valve device has a single housing competing coaxially a load sensing push rod, a load sensing piston, a ratio piston, a ratio valve and a spring for retracting the push rod to a normal position. The load sensing push rod actuates the ratio piston to open an equalizing valve to fill an equalizing volume from a control valve and to permit the ratio piston to limit brake cylinder pressure upon sensing an empty car.

Empty-load valve device

A modulation valve device for governing pressure in a brake pipe has coaxial accelerating and releasing valves provided wherein accelerated application and release pistons are dovetailed together to reduce the size and the weight of the modulating device.

Brake pipe pressure modulating valve device

A fluid brake control system for a railway train has control valves of the ABD type that have service valves that are modified to provide continuous quick service, thus eliminating the need for special accelerated application valves as currently used in ABDW control valves.

Fluid brake control system for railroad vehicles

A housing has a triple valve coaxially adjoining a proportioning piston valve end-to-end, the triple valve having supply, lap and exhaust positions for governing pressure in a brake cylinder; and the proportioning piston valve being operable to sense an emergency signal in a brake pipe for delivering fluid from an emergency reservoir to the brake cylinder after the brake cylinder has been charged to substantially service pressure from an auxiliary reservoir. The triple valve and the proportioning valve piston are biased in opposite directions by the same biasing spring.

Brake control system

An electro-pneumatic pilot valve device is operably connected to a relay valve device for governing fluid pressure control of friction brakes of a vehicle in accordance with at least one variable analog signal input to the pilot valve device. The electro-pneumatic pilot valve device has a differential piston assembly comprising a valve plunger having ball valves disposed coaxially thereon and input, vent, and pilot chambers associated with the valves wherein one of the valves selectively connects the input chamber to the pilot chamber, and another valve selectively connects the pilot chamber to the vent chamber. A linear torque motor is governed by a variable input electrical signal for selectively applying a force axially to the plunger to vent fluid from the pilot chamber to atmosphere through the vent chamber. A balance of forces acting on the plunger permits operation of the valves to a lap position.

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Watertown, NY, United States of America

Walter E Rojecki