. Electric railway journal . Car Replacer for Inside Rail Iron Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. This replacer is of thesimplest possible construction, consisting merely of twostrong, deeply ribbed castings. The part which is fitted to. -Hard Solder EUctric Pneumatic Gong Ringer for Kansas City Cars yi-m. holes bored in the walls of the cylinder. These allowthe air pressure to be instantly reduced to such an extentthat the compressed spring forces the piston back about lj4in. At this point the piston is again picked up by the airpressure and again forced past the J^-in. holes, the processcontinu
. Electric railway journal . Car Replacer for Inside Rail Iron Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. This replacer is of thesimplest possible construction, consisting merely of twostrong, deeply ribbed castings. The part which is fitted to. -Hard Solder EUctric Pneumatic Gong Ringer for Kansas City Cars yi-m. holes bored in the walls of the cylinder. These allowthe air pressure to be instantly reduced to such an extentthat the compressed spring forces the piston back about lj4in. At this point the piston is again picked up by the airpressure and again forced past the J^-in. holes, the processcontinuing at the rate of 800 strokes per minute as long asair pressure is supplied at the small hole in the hard-solderdisk. A single tap of the gong may be produced by press-ing the pedal down and immediately releasing it, but if the Car Replacer Outfit Installed the rail is formed with a three-quarters circle at each endin order to receive the other part, which can be swiveledthrough any portion of an arc of 45 deg. In operation theswiveling pieces of both the inside and outside replacers arefirst adjusted to the position of the truck wheels, and thenthe wheels are guided up the converging runway in eachswivel piece to the
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