Locomotive appliances . getting under the engine in the roundhouse. The accompanying engraving of Linstromsimproved eccentric for locomotives will be of interestfrom the fact that it would seem to solve some of thedifficulties attendant upon the usual construction oflocomotive eccentrics.* The eccentric set screw isdone away with, the U-shaped bolt D not only hold-ing the two segments A and B together, but alsoclamping them to the shaft, While there is noobjection to the use of keys with this eccentric, it issaid to be unnecessary, as its construction preventsits slipping on the shaft. It is c
Locomotive appliances . getting under the engine in the roundhouse. The accompanying engraving of Linstromsimproved eccentric for locomotives will be of interestfrom the fact that it would seem to solve some of thedifficulties attendant upon the usual construction oflocomotive eccentrics.* The eccentric set screw isdone away with, the U-shaped bolt D not only hold-ing the two segments A and B together, but alsoclamping them to the shaft, While there is noobjection to the use of keys with this eccentric, it issaid to be unnecessary, as its construction preventsits slipping on the shaft. It is claimed to allay therunning hot of the eccentric, which often occurs onthe ordinary form, on account of tightening the sin * For illustrations ami description of the ordinary locomotiveeccentric, the reader is referred to The Science of Railways, General Index. (819) 220 LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. screws and thereby forcing the eccentrics away fromthe shaft and causing them to bind in the straps,producing excessive Fig. Improved Locomotive Eccentric.
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