. The street railway review . FIG. U—BELT SANDING MACHINE. ofif just under the head, until the design shown in Fig. 10was adopted. The blanks are punched out of mild steeland 20 are drop-forged per hour. As may be seen, thehorizontal stress is received by the metal in the head. The ^MdS(cul)kviai\S\gvleW 28 bending tools are of much merit, such things as couplinglinks, S hooks, ririgs, etc., being bent either cold or withone heat. Patterns are made for the dies and kept, so thatif one be broken another can be made in a short time. The equipment of the wood room comprises i planer, ijointer, 2
. The street railway review . FIG. U—BELT SANDING MACHINE. ofif just under the head, until the design shown in Fig. 10was adopted. The blanks are punched out of mild steeland 20 are drop-forged per hour. As may be seen, thehorizontal stress is received by the metal in the head. The ^MdS(cul)kviai\S\gvleW 28 bending tools are of much merit, such things as couplinglinks, S hooks, ririgs, etc., being bent either cold or withone heat. Patterns are made for the dies and kept, so thatif one be broken another can be made in a short time. The equipment of the wood room comprises i planer, ijointer, 2 molding stickers, 2 rip saws, i cross cut saw, iband saw, i scroll saw, 2 shapers, 2 mortising FIG. 12—CAR SHOP. 1 tenoning machine, i sandpapering machine, i turninglathe, I emery wheel. The swing saw with a hinged bed is very effective insaving time, as bevel cuts can be made by setting a part ofthe carriage at the desired angle. This machine, as wellas the belt sanding machine, Fig. 11, used for sandpaper-ing dash-rails, hammer handles and other irregular shapesin wood, was made in the shop. A cyclone has been built at the rear of the boiler room,the shavings and dust being collected from the planers,saws and cushion cleaner and fed into the boiler furnaces. In the wood room is the large car elevator operated bya winding drum driven from the shafting. The tracks rundirect from the street onto the elevator and the cars areraised to the second floor. They are run on the transfertable and placed on any of the 11 tracks shown in Fig. i.^.The table is operated by an 8-h. p. General Electric motor,one man attending to the controller and the other to therope connected to the doub
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