. The Street railway journal . FIG. JOINT which has a thickness of i in. and is pressed around the baseof the rail. Two base plates of the same size as the angleplates are used as shown in Fig. i. No bolts are Arbel joint (Fig. 2) also consists of a yoke, but the railis held in the yoke by braces retained in position by fourwedges. The Holzer joint (Fig. 3) is made by riveting on tothe base of the rail a base plate which may consist of an oldinverted rail. None of these joints has been in use longenough to determine its real value. The Falk joint has beenused quite widel
. The Street railway journal . FIG. JOINT which has a thickness of i in. and is pressed around the baseof the rail. Two base plates of the same size as the angleplates are used as shown in Fig. i. No bolts are Arbel joint (Fig. 2) also consists of a yoke, but the railis held in the yoke by braces retained in position by fourwedges. The Holzer joint (Fig. 3) is made by riveting on tothe base of the rail a base plate which may consist of an oldinverted rail. None of these joints has been in use longenough to determine its real value. The Falk joint has beenused quite widely in France, and is considered one of thebest, but has the drawback that it is expensive and requires alarge equipment. The Goldschmidt joint has also been usedto some extent and deserves the attention of railway com- September 22, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 435 panics. Electrical welding by alternating or by direct cur-rent, the latter according to the system of the AccumulatorenFabrik, has not been employed yet in France
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