. The street railway review . the truck as has often happened with the standard typeof third-rail shoe. Sleet Cutter. The line drawings serve to illustrate the detail design of adevice for removing sleet rnd ice from the third rail. This inter-esting attachment was also designed and perfected by Mr. MilesAs will be seen, this sleet cutter consists of a vertical shaft witha flange at its lower end. On this flange or plate is fastened asecond plate of cast steel having projecting from its underside anumber of cylindrical shaped bosses which ride upon the uppersurface of the third rail. As the ca
. The street railway review . the truck as has often happened with the standard typeof third-rail shoe. Sleet Cutter. The line drawings serve to illustrate the detail design of adevice for removing sleet rnd ice from the third rail. This inter-esting attachment was also designed and perfected by Mr. MilesAs will be seen, this sleet cutter consists of a vertical shaft witha flange at its lower end. On this flange or plate is fastened asecond plate of cast steel having projecting from its underside anumber of cylindrical shaped bosses which ride upon the uppersurface of the third rail. As the car moves along the plate incontact with the rail has a rotating motion about the vertical bosses thus traveling back and forth across the upper surfaceof the rail and by virtue of this movement scraping any ice orsleet to one side. By reference to Fig. 1 it will be noticed that the entire device issupported on the wooden side-bar which carries the third-railshoe. A set of mating plates is provided for making a proper. fig. 2. sleet cutting to which are fastened the main cable leading to the current controlapparatus and the bare flexible copper pig tail which has its lowerend bolted to the side of the current collecting shoe, this latter beingthe only bolt in the shoe. (See cross section on next page.) As will be seen in the illustration, the shoe is suspended directlybelow the wooden bar by means of two continuous links whichrest in sockets on top of the bar and hook under the ears formingthe top part of the shoe. The sockets which hold the upper ends ofthese links are bolted to the wooden bar by through bolts. Eachsocket rests upon a plate having cross ridges on its upper surface KJ 3 JU LJ DCT UUX
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