. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—HYDRAULIC LIFT USED IN KANSAS CITY FIG. 2.—PITS AND HYDRAULIC LIFT AT KANSAS CITY spruce, laid and spiked together on edge, which makes a solidroof 4 ins. thick, covered with i-in. spruce boards, groovedand tongued, and laid pitching to gutters down the line ofposts in the center, the whole being properly drained by pipesleading to the drain in the building. The inside of the roof iscovered with fireproof paint. The roof covering consists ofa five-ply 8-oz. composition of tar and gravel roofing. The walls, skylights, fresh-air inlet and all other placeswh
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—HYDRAULIC LIFT USED IN KANSAS CITY FIG. 2.—PITS AND HYDRAULIC LIFT AT KANSAS CITY spruce, laid and spiked together on edge, which makes a solidroof 4 ins. thick, covered with i-in. spruce boards, groovedand tongued, and laid pitching to gutters down the line ofposts in the center, the whole being properly drained by pipesleading to the drain in the building. The inside of the roof iscovered with fireproof paint. The roof covering consists ofa five-ply 8-oz. composition of tar and gravel roofing. The walls, skylights, fresh-air inlet and all other placeswhere required are flashed with galvanized iron. The sky-lights are made of galvanized iron reinforced with iron rodsset in a wooden curb and glazed with obscure glass of doublethickness. These skylights serve both for lighting and ven- the pit and also the type of pit construction employed. Thejack has a piston 3 ins. in diameter, with a pump piston orram 1% ins. in diameter. The lift piston is packed with a cupleather, and
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