. Public works . sists of ablowpipe burning a mixture of acetylene gases to produce a flamewith a temperature of about 6,300 de-grees Fahrenheit. The Oxweld specialcutting outfit is designed for fire de-partment use in going through steel ob-structions like fire doors, window grat-ing or other steel work. The outfitconsists of the Oxweld cutting blow-pipe, two lengths of 50 feet of copperarmored hose, the necessary acetyleneand oxygen regulators, one steel oxy-gen cjlinder of 50 cubic feet capacity,one acetylene cylinder of 40 cubic feetcapacity and a substantial leather car-rying h
. Public works . sists of ablowpipe burning a mixture of acetylene gases to produce a flamewith a temperature of about 6,300 de-grees Fahrenheit. The Oxweld specialcutting outfit is designed for fire de-partment use in going through steel ob-structions like fire doors, window grat-ing or other steel work. The outfitconsists of the Oxweld cutting blow-pipe, two lengths of 50 feet of copperarmored hose, the necessary acetyleneand oxygen regulators, one steel oxy-gen cjlinder of 50 cubic feet capacity,one acetylene cylinder of 40 cubic feetcapacity and a substantial leather car-rying harness for each cylinder. Theentire outfit weighs only 118 poundsand is thus easily portable and may becarried by one man to any place neces-sary. When not in use the outfit maybe fastened to the running board orother convenient part of the truck. Thetwo gases used are easily obtainable andare inexplosive. The operation of theblowpipe is simple and may be learnedvery quickly. In a recent test, as shown in the il-. CUTTING STEEL WITH OXWfiLP BLQWPjrE, I November 12, 1914 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL 717 lustrations, a fireman made a 12-inchcut around a lock through ■4-inch metalin 36 seconds and also cut twenty K>-inch square bars of a steel window grat-ing in 50 seconds. It is calculated thatwith this outfit 45 lineal feet of }4-ichsteel, 30 lineal feet of Jl-inch or 10 lin-eal feet of 1-inch may be cut on onecharge of oxygen. The speed per min-ute of the cutting is claimed to be 20lineal inches of !4-inch steel, IS linealinches of !<2-inch, lOjj lineal inches of1-inch, 6 of 2-inch, 3 of 4-inch. The apparatus is made by the OxweldAcetylene Newark, X. J., Chicagoand Los .Angeles. NON-SKID TIRE PROTECTOR. The Gripper non-skid tire protectoris designed for use on the rear tires ofmotor trucks and the front wheels offront wheel driven fire apparatus, toprevent skidding on wet or slushyroads, to provide for better grip andtraction on grades and to protect thetire. The protectors t
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