. The street railway review . sed with air of all loose particles of dust and dirtin the manner previously described. Ihen they are laid on a rackin Ihe sink (the details of which are shown in Kigs. 2 anil 3), sal-iiralcd with hot water, .uid llKirouglily brushed with Olive Oil .soapsufls. The brush uscrl j^, 3 in. wide x U in. long aiirl in order to stand 476 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIII, No. 8. any length of time, must be made of best quality bristles, from ^ I in. in length. Then the l«cks and cushions arc thoroughlywashed so as to remove all the clirl which has been lilK-ratcd b
. The street railway review . sed with air of all loose particles of dust and dirtin the manner previously described. Ihen they are laid on a rackin Ihe sink (the details of which are shown in Kigs. 2 anil 3), sal-iiralcd with hot water, .uid llKirouglily brushed with Olive Oil .soapsufls. The brush uscrl j^, 3 in. wide x U in. long aiirl in order to stand 476 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIII, No. 8. any length of time, must be made of best quality bristles, from ^ I in. in length. Then the l«cks and cushions arc thoroughlywashed so as to remove all the clirl which has been lilK-ratcd by thesoap suds, the suds lo Iw also thoroughly removed by some means have Iwcn used to hasten the drying of the seats, such scats are set on racks over a sink containing the dye, which mustl>c kept hot by pipes passing through it, but the steam inuit notblow direct into the dye. The dye can be applied to the backs and cushions cither by dip-ping them into the dye in the sink, into which the forms have been. IG. 2 PLAN OK SINK. as scraping, but this wears the nap considerably. .\ better way islo blow the water out with air, using a nozzle with a .shield on it. asshown in Fig. 4. the shield being designed to prevent the waterfrom flying in all directions. This nozzle is so constructed as to beattached to the compressed air pipe. .As soon as the greater por-tion of the water is removed from the cushions or backs bv either put in suflicient quantities and the sink plugged up; or the dyemay Ik* poured on them and the surplus permitted to run down intothe sink again: after which they nuist stand for a short time, accord-ing to the condition they arc in. If they arc but little faded they canbe washed off in five minutes, but if they are badly faded, theynuist stand longer, according to their condition, before they are y?ocA/a-o
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