. The Street railway journal . enue Railroad Company, of New York,has recently built at its shops the sand car shown in theaccompanying engraving ( ). In front of each wheelis a .scraper shown in detail in Fig. i. This can be raisedand lowered from the platform by means of the gear andsegmental rackshown, within limitsdetermined by a set-screw which is setlower as the with whichthe .scraper is fittedwear out. The endis hinged and fittedwith a spring so thatit will turn back, of breakingin case an immov-able object is the wheelsof the car are tworotary
. The Street railway journal . enue Railroad Company, of New York,has recently built at its shops the sand car shown in theaccompanying engraving ( ). In front of each wheelis a .scraper shown in detail in Fig. i. This can be raisedand lowered from the platform by means of the gear andsegmental rackshown, within limitsdetermined by a set-screw which is setlower as the with whichthe .scraper is fittedwear out. The endis hinged and fittedwith a spring so thatit will turn back, of breakingin case an immov-able object is the wheelsof the car are tworotary eachindependently driv-en by sprocketchains from theaxles. The jour-nals carrying thebrush are so arrang-ed that any .stretch of the chain can be taken up. The sweepsstraight ahead, the debris being thrown to one side by meansof a sheet metal fender, so that under no circumstances canthe brush sweep on to the next track or spatter height of the brush is also regulated from the FIG. SCRAPER.
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