rotary valve
Americannoun
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The whole apparatus is actuated by compressed air from a tank, controlled by a rotary valve which creates the pulsating pressure.
From Time Magazine Archive
A. The automatic brake valve is of the rotary valve type and is the same valve as used with the E-T equipment.
From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous
A. This may be caused by leakage past the rotary valve, defective body gasket, or leakage by the feed valve or its case gasket.
From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous
In Germany a rotary valve, a kind of stop cock, is preferred to the piston.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
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