. Electric railway gazette . lectrician,in its issue of Dec, [7th, contains an illustrated descriptionof an important device for the better operation of electricrailways with a conduit. Overhead wires are ei • and .111 nnderneal h conduit isscaled. Mr. W, E. I rish is 1 In inventor, I he < onduil represent! d in KigS. 1 and 2 is simply an elastic and water tight tube ol soft rubber, i ontaining within a continuous bare con-ductor to which contact may be madeat any point within the tube through-out its whole length. Secured to theoutside and upper surface of this elas-tic pipe are short rail
. Electric railway gazette . lectrician,in its issue of Dec, [7th, contains an illustrated descriptionof an important device for the better operation of electricrailways with a conduit. Overhead wires are ei • and .111 nnderneal h conduit isscaled. Mr. W, E. I rish is 1 In inventor, I he < onduil represent! d in KigS. 1 and 2 is simply an elastic and water tight tube ol soft rubber, i ontaining within a continuous bare con-ductor to which contact may be madeat any point within the tube through-out its whole length. Secured to theoutside and upper surface of this elas-tic pipe are short rail pieces, flangedat their sides and breaking contactwith each other. These rails are levelwith the surface of the roadway andare connected by means of screwspassed through the rubber conduitto sectional contact pieces within the pipe, of the samelength as the rail or surface sections. These contact piecesare also insulated by space and the rubber from each metallically connect in pairs the surface rail sections. Fig. 1.—Irishs SealedConduit.
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