. Railway master mechanic . Y. (Fig. 10.) Thurmond coupler and dramng, from Thurmond CarCoupling Co., New York. (Fig. 110 Stilger & Strosler coupler and drawings, from Stilger &Strosler Automatic Coupling Co., Louisville, Ky. (Fig. 13.) SmiUie coupler, from the Smillie Coupler Co., Newark,N. J. (Fig. 13.) Mather coupler, from A. C. Mather, New York. (Fig. 14.) Hinson coupler and blue prints, from Hinson Car CoupleiCo., Chicago, ni. (Fig. 15.) Union coupler, from Union Coupler Co., (Fig. 16.) Barnes Coupler, from Lucien Barnes, Syracuse, N. Y(Fig. 17.) Gluck Coupler, from James
. Railway master mechanic . Y. (Fig. 10.) Thurmond coupler and dramng, from Thurmond CarCoupling Co., New York. (Fig. 110 Stilger & Strosler coupler and drawings, from Stilger &Strosler Automatic Coupling Co., Louisville, Ky. (Fig. 13.) SmiUie coupler, from the Smillie Coupler Co., Newark,N. J. (Fig. 13.) Mather coupler, from A. C. Mather, New York. (Fig. 14.) Hinson coupler and blue prints, from Hinson Car CoupleiCo., Chicago, ni. (Fig. 15.) Union coupler, from Union Coupler Co., (Fig. 16.) Barnes Coupler, from Lucien Barnes, Syracuse, N. Y(Fig. 17.) Gluck Coupler, from James F. Gluck, Buffalo, N. Y(Fig. 18.) Your committee also received the following, upon whichthey were unable to take action, on account of sample coup-lers not being furnished: A communication describing avertical plane coupler not yet completed, from RobertsHardware Co., Denver, Col.; a communication describingvertical plane coupler and rough sketch from C. C. Lane,New York; a communication relating to Chicago coupler. from C. A. Schroyer, Chicago, lU.; a communication de-scribing vertical plane coupler from G. R. Hoffman, Phila-delphia, Pa.; a communication from Beals Railway BrakeCo., New York; a copy of report in Railway Registerfrom St. Louis Car Coupler Co., St. Louis, Mb.; a com-munication and patent papers from Damon D. Shaw, BigBend, Kan. The results of examination of couplers .submitted are setforth in cuts herewith, in whi( i, i _- 1 i- -liw the con-tour lines of the various coup ili casts taken from the samii: liinittcc. Inthesecuts the standard cont.,; in lln- annual report of the M. C. B. .i-- I-«i air shown in dotted lines. Fig. 19 shows M olhcr measurementstaken from the couplers submitt«d,in tabular form as illus-trated, in which tabulated form the standard measurementsas prescribed by the association are given for comparison. For obvious reasons your committee would recommendthat a maximum and minimum limit be established for theseveral parts
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