. American engineer and railroad journal . fire test) is conijiclled to Jiass,••uid where it is completely volatilized on its way to the burner,due burner remains the same as the regular lighting lamp;the other, where the burner isturncd down, hiis a jiipe ex- Vol. LXVII, No. 3.] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 151 tending from the jet end and communicating with the jet it-self to tlie farther coil of the burner ; hence, all oil whichreaches the jet must rise to the top and come down throughthis tube, thus insuring its perfect volatilization. When the apparatus is in use the wheel is entirely surround-e
. American engineer and railroad journal . fire test) is conijiclled to Jiass,••uid where it is completely volatilized on its way to the burner,due burner remains the same as the regular lighting lamp;the other, where the burner isturncd down, hiis a jiipe ex- Vol. LXVII, No. 3.] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 151 tending from the jet end and communicating with the jet it-self to tlie farther coil of the burner ; hence, all oil whichreaches the jet must rise to the top and come down throughthis tube, thus insuring its perfect volatilization. When the apparatus is in use the wheel is entirely surround-ed with a .sheet of dame ; and it is claimed that the tire is more A test was made before a number of railroad men and repre-sentatives of the technical press at the Kingsland, N. J., shopsof the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad, on Febru-ary The first four tests consisted in removing the tiresfrom driving-wheels having 57f in. centers, the tires being Ifin. thicli. The two lamps used were carefully weighed before n f^. J«SB4 , ^jrr— THE WELLS LIGHT AS USED FOR EXPANDING TIRES. uniformly heated by this method than where a jet of gas isused, because in this instance the flame covers the whole treadof the wheel, and the heat works uniformly inward, so tliat thecenter does not receive very much heat, whereas with gasthe impingement of the hot Bunsen flame against the center of found to weigh lbs. and 280 lbs. blaze was turned at in the morning, and four min-utes later the lamps wire adjusted to the tire. In ten minutesthe tires had been expanded .08 in. in diameter, and the lampswere removed. In five minutes more the tire had been swung
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