slide valve

American  

noun

Machinery.

1. a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.

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slide valve British  

noun

1. a valve that slides across an aperture to expose the port or opening

2. (modifier) fitted with slide valves

   a slide-valve engine

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Etymology

Origin of slide valve

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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slide valve

Brake pipe air will now be free to flow past the piston to the slide valve chamber and out at "R" to the auxiliary reservoir.

From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous

In setting the slide valve of an engine having a link motion, there are two distinct operations.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

The throttle valve is a simple slide valve and must have been primitive for the time, for the balance-poppet throttle valve was in use in this country previous to 1851.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by White, John H.

The action of a common slide valve may be traced as follows: Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Figure 24.—Bottom of valve box with slide valve removed.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by White, John H.