<span class="searchmatch">spring</span> <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> <span class="searchmatch">valves</span>) A <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> fitted with a <span class="searchmatch">spring</span>. A safety <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> connected with a <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> balance....
<span class="searchmatch">spring</span> <span class="searchmatch">valves</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> <span class="searchmatch">valve</span>...
spring <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> cap <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> collar <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> compressor <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> depressor <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> lifter <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> retainer <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> seat variable...
side <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> slide <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> sluice <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> snifter <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> snifting <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> stop <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> suction <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> swing check <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> tail <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> Thebesian <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> thermionic...
puppet <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> (plural puppet <span class="searchmatch">valves</span>) (engineering) A simple type of <span class="searchmatch">valve</span>, consisting of one or more circular plates held down by a <span class="searchmatch">spring</span>....
activity. An attributive use. Ramsbottom safety <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> Ramsbottom safety <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> safety-<span class="searchmatch">valve</span> (verb) <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> set to open at a pressure below that at which...
E. Van Deuren, Wind Talk for Brass, Types of <span class="searchmatch">Valves</span>: Piston <span class="searchmatch">valves</span> move up and down by means of a <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> lining up holes or wind ways in the piston with...
of the Midland compounds”, in Trains Illustrated, page 675: A <span class="searchmatch">spring</span>-loaded reducing <span class="searchmatch">valve</span>, controllable from the cab, admitted h.p. steam to both h.p....
safety <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> (plural Ramsbottom safety <span class="searchmatch">valves</span>) A kind of tamperproof safety <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> for use on locomotives, consisting of two plug-type <span class="searchmatch">valves</span> connected...
poppet <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> (plural poppet <span class="searchmatch">valves</span>) (mechanics) A <span class="searchmatch">valve</span> (as in an internal combustion engine) which consists of a sliding shaft with a disk on the end...