. Railway age gazette . er to the hands is consists of a sucker or lifting device about 8 in. indiameter, which is connected by means of a rubber hose to asuitable suction line and which is further free to move on anirregularly shaped rod, its length of travel being controlled by the press hand through the medium of two guide arms orhandles, one on either side of the punch and die; that is, justinside of the press housings. When a pile of metal sheets is placed in the rear of thepress preparatory to being punched, the press hand on theopposite side of the press pushes the guide ar
. Railway age gazette . er to the hands is consists of a sucker or lifting device about 8 in. indiameter, which is connected by means of a rubber hose to asuitable suction line and which is further free to move on anirregularly shaped rod, its length of travel being controlled by the press hand through the medium of two guide arms orhandles, one on either side of the punch and die; that is, justinside of the press housings. When a pile of metal sheets is placed in the rear of thepress preparatory to being punched, the press hand on theopposite side of the press pushes the guide arms throughthe press towards the pile. The irregularly shaped rod al-lows the sucker to drop until it rests on the top sheet of thepile, when a lever on one of the two guide arms is pressed,thus opening the suction valve and causing the sucker togrip the sheet. The guide arms and the suction lever arenot released until after the first blank has been punched. Bythus retaining hold of the guide arms, practically all danger. A Hand Adaptation of the Safety Suction Device of injury to the hands is removed, for in punching the suc-ceeding blanks, the operator can almost invariabl}- pull thesheet forward by means of the scrap or margin. Since the adoption of this suction device there has not beenan amputation on the large presses and up to the presentno fingers have been amputated in the punch shop. The devicewas exhibited and received the grand prize at the recentInternational Exposition of Safety and Sanitation in NewYork City and is now on exhibition in the American Museumof Safetv there. Smoke Prevention Schemes.—That the smoke difficulty withsteam locomotives is a real one may be at once admitted; butthat the solution lies in distributing the smoke behind or underthe train cannot be accepted. Yet, from the earliest days of thesteam locomotive until now, inventors have proposed all sortsof ideas of this kind. One of the most ingenious was tried yearsago on the Metropolitan Railw
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