Kylchap
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Construction
- Theory
- Examples of use
- France
- Great Britain
- Czechoslovakia
- Other exhaust systems
- See also
- References
- External links
260px|thumb|right|The Kylchap exhaust system 260px|thumb|right|Double Kylchap exhaust of the Spanish RENFE 141 F 2416 (smokebox cut open), in the Delicias Museum, Madrid
The Kylchap steam locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by French steam engineer André Chapelon, using a second-stage nozzle designed by the Finnish engineer Kyösti Kylälä, known as the Kylälä spreader, with the composite name KylChap being given the design.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kylchap” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.