. The Street railway journal . nd over the lines of the Northern Ohio Traction & LightCompany. Two 50-ft. cars have been secured by the Canton-Akron Company for this service, as it was found impracticalto operate its heavy 60-ft. cars on the severe grade of theAkron-Cleveland line. Several novel devices which either facilitate work or reducewaste have been put into use in the shops of the Sioux CityTraction Company at Sioux City, la., by C. M. Feist, mastermechanic of the system. In these shops all the cars are con-structed and all the car repair work is done for the system,which embraces abou
. The Street railway journal . nd over the lines of the Northern Ohio Traction & LightCompany. Two 50-ft. cars have been secured by the Canton-Akron Company for this service, as it was found impracticalto operate its heavy 60-ft. cars on the severe grade of theAkron-Cleveland line. Several novel devices which either facilitate work or reducewaste have been put into use in the shops of the Sioux CityTraction Company at Sioux City, la., by C. M. Feist, mastermechanic of the system. In these shops all the cars are con-structed and all the car repair work is done for the system,which embraces about 43 miles of track in and about SiouxCity. A little device that has effected quite a saving in registerrope is a triangle of bell crank which was substituted for theusual pulley at the bulkhead of the car where the registerrope turns to pass to the register. The substitutes of the bellcrank on all the cars resulted in a saving of $45 worth ofregister rope in one year. With an ordinary wrench it is rather an awkward under-. FIG. 1.—EXTENSION SOCKET WRENCH FOR TIGHTENINGNUTS ON SPLIT GEARS taking to tighten the nuts on split gears. Their position issuch as to allow the wrench to turn through but a very smallangle, and moreover the nut is usually greasy and it is hard toget a firm hold on it with the wrench. To facilitate the workof tightening these nuts, J. A. Rubel, pit foreman, devised thewrench shown in Fig. i. This is in fact an offset socketwrench. The T-handle turns a cog which meshes with an-other of equal size containing a hexagonal opening for thenut. The two cogs are carried in a frame provided with anangular extension which when pressure is put on the wrenchstrikes the gear and prevents the frame turning further. A device used for babbiting split bearings is shown in The mandrel and the base block are in one piece. Afterthe bearing shells have been placed in position on the baseblock the two half shells shown are clamped around illustration shows the
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