. American engineer and railroad journal . RTS CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY, Considerable ingenuity is being displayed on Southern rail-roads at present in working out improved methods for doingwork, and particularly in the line of time and labor savingdevices for machine shop work. Some of these latter are re-markably efficacious in serving the purpose for which designed,and a careful study of their details, as shown in the drawings costs of doing work. Those illustrated in connection with thisarticle are the latest additions to the shop equipment, and havebeen carefully worked out with the end in v
. American engineer and railroad journal . RTS CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY, Considerable ingenuity is being displayed on Southern rail-roads at present in working out improved methods for doingwork, and particularly in the line of time and labor savingdevices for machine shop work. Some of these latter are re-markably efficacious in serving the purpose for which designed,and a careful study of their details, as shown in the drawings costs of doing work. Those illustrated in connection with thisarticle are the latest additions to the shop equipment, and havebeen carefully worked out with the end in view to secure a stillfurther refinement in the results desired. They are in dailyservice, and are now no unimportant factors in the generalefficiency to which the Macon shops have been raised. A particularly desirable accessory to any locomotive machinedepartment may be found in the chuck for shoes and wedges,which is illustrated in half tone and in detail arrangemeni. Itwill be noted that this device is very simple, requiring very little. CHUCK FOR PLANING SHOES AND WEDGES. herewith, with a view to adopting them for similar work any-where, will prove to be time well spent. They point conclusivelyto the fact that the South is not lacking in its full quota of clevermechanics who are continually on the alert to originate anddevelop schemes for the betterment of their existing shop facili-ties and methods. time and labor to chuck the shoes or wedges, and it can be usedon either a planer or milling machine. The chuck shown in thephotograph is made up of several sections, so that it can beused on various lengths of planer beds, although there is nothingto interfere with making it of any length which local conditionsmay dictate.
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