. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , which insures accurate planing tothe extreme limit of stroke. The cross-slide is very deep and scraped to an accu-rate bearing. The operator can set the ramat any desired stroke without stopping it,and a graduated dial makes this easy andaccurate. This enables him to work toan irregular line. Revolutions per minute— weight of machine with counter-shaft—3,850 pounds. Uncle Sams Hail Boat. It is not generally known that the UnitedStates Government has in New York Har-bor a post-office
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , which insures accurate planing tothe extreme limit of stroke. The cross-slide is very deep and scraped to an accu-rate bearing. The operator can set the ramat any desired stroke without stopping it,and a graduated dial makes this easy andaccurate. This enables him to work toan irregular line. Revolutions per minute— weight of machine with counter-shaft—3,850 pounds. Uncle Sams Hail Boat. It is not generally known that the UnitedStates Government has in New York Har-bor a post-office boat, similar in functionto the railroad postal car. This boat, thePostmaster General, meets the incom-ing ocean liners in the lower bay at Quar-antine, and takes from them the mail forthis country, loading it in pouches on tothe decks of the Postmaster soon as the mail is loaded, the postalboat hurries to its dock in New York city,where it is met by a large number ofgovernment mail wagons, which receivethe bags of mail and distribute them tothe General Post Office, the sub-stations. POTTER & Johnstons motor-driven shaper. Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N, J. The cross-slide is mounted on ball bear-ings and is easily raised or lowered. Grad-uated collars for fine adjustments are fittedto the feed screws. The tool slide has a powerful downfeed and automatic stop at any anglethrough an arc of 90 degrees, and has tenchanges of feed which can be changedwhile in motion. The stops to feeds arepositive and accurate, enabling the bestresults to be obtained. The vise providedwith these machines is strong and designedto draw the work down when who know the tendency of the or-dinary vise to raise and throw work outof true will appreciate this. The general dimensions are as follows: Length of stroke—24 inches. Automatic cross travel se—23 inches. adjustment of table—16Hinches Swivel vise opens—6 inches. Length of jaws—12 inches. and
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