. The Street railway journal . furtherguided at the bottom in each corner by plates with rollersrunning between guide strips, permitting the sash to operatefreely above these guide strips. When closed the sash isheld in position by a sash fastening which also serves as ahandle to operate the sash. The side lights are fasteneddirectly into the stanchions or frame of the vestibule. Nar-row wooden or brass channel stiles are employed in con-structing the center sash, thereby giving the motorman amaximum amount of light. The portable vestibule projectsa few inches over the dash, thus giving the mo
. The Street railway journal . furtherguided at the bottom in each corner by plates with rollersrunning between guide strips, permitting the sash to operatefreely above these guide strips. When closed the sash isheld in position by a sash fastening which also serves as ahandle to operate the sash. The side lights are fasteneddirectly into the stanchions or frame of the vestibule. Nar-row wooden or brass channel stiles are employed in con-structing the center sash, thereby giving the motorman amaximum amount of light. The portable vestibule projectsa few inches over the dash, thus giving the motorman afree swing of the controller handle. All closed cars of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Companyare provided with this type of vestibule. The Brooklyn &Coney Island Railroad Company also has 200 five-lightvestibules of this type in service. The New York CityRailway Company has 600 in use and the manufacturer isnow completing an order for 1400 more. When this is de-livered nearly every closed car in Greater New York will. UNDERHUNG INSULATOR AS IT APPEARS ON LINE be equipped with the Sjoberg vestibule. This type of vesti-bule is conveniently placed on the car out of the way of theheadlight and gives free play to the brake and controllerhandle. October 19, 1907.] STREETNEW BANDING MACHINE RAILWAY JOURNAL. 813 The American General Engineering Company of NewYork has added to its extensive line of manufactures theimproved banding machine shown in the accompanyingdrawing. The bander may be operated by any form ofpower and its movement stopped by releasing the treadleto disengage a friction clutch from the pulley. The t ension device is mounted on the carriage to movewith it, and so that during the operation of winding it willmove automatically with relation to the carriage and thuslay the successive turns of wire side by side properly. Thetension device consists of several guiding and tensionsheaves supported on a wire-feeding arm pivoted on a studto one of the side frames of the c
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