. The Street railway journal . St. Zotique and St. Denis Streets. Tuesday, 10 —Boulevard Protestant school, Beinville and St. DenisStreets. Wednesday, 9 a. m.—St. Elizabeth Church, cornerof St. James Street and St. Elizabeth du Portugal , 9 a. m.—All Saints Church, Marie Anne and Streets. A convenient armature cradle, illustrated herewith, is inuse at the St. John Street shops of the Portland (Maine)Railroad Company. The cradle is used chiefly in the waitingroom and serves to hold the work in place as well as to enableit to be moved easily about the room. It consist
. The Street railway journal . St. Zotique and St. Denis Streets. Tuesday, 10 —Boulevard Protestant school, Beinville and St. DenisStreets. Wednesday, 9 a. m.—St. Elizabeth Church, cornerof St. James Street and St. Elizabeth du Portugal , 9 a. m.—All Saints Church, Marie Anne and Streets. A convenient armature cradle, illustrated herewith, is inuse at the St. John Street shops of the Portland (Maine)Railroad Company. The cradle is used chiefly in the waitingroom and serves to hold the work in place as well as to enableit to be moved easily about the room. It consists of an oakframe supported on four ball-bearing rollers, with recessesat the top of each pair of posts for the shaft of the armatureand two shelves for holding tools and supplies. The centerof the armature shaft is brought 36 ins. above the floorwhen the device is in use. An angle-iron strap bolted to theinside of the left-hand pair of posts enables the cradle to beused for GE-800, 1000, 67 and 57 armatures, and Westing-. ARMATURE CRADLE USED IN PORTLAND, MAINE house 68s. Different sizes of straps are used with the dif-ferent armatures. The frame is 31^4 ins. long, parallel to the shaft and be-tween posts at the top, 18 ins. wide at the top, and 26J/2 at the bottom. Each shelf is 9 ins. x 16 ins. in di-mensions, and is braced by a pair of brackets. Fiber andmica are kept on one shelf, and hammer, knife and wedgeson the other. The principal members of the frame are 2^/2ins. thick. The side posts are stiffened by Y% in. log boltsabout 8 ins. long, and the upper longitudinal pieces are sup-plemented lengthwise by a y% in. bolt about 27 ins. lower longitudinal piece is offset 2 ins. to enable theworkman to stand closer to the armature, and it would bean advantage if the top longitudinal pieces on each sidewere offset in the same way. With this device the armature can be moved about thefloor without the slightest difficulty, and the cradle can betaken downsta
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