. Electric railway journal . Union Traction Company of Indiana Uses OriginalDevice in These Operations and Saves 50Per Cent in Waste and Labor BY INSTALLING, at its Anderson shops, equipmentfor washing and saturating with oil all of thewaste used at its six division shops, the Union TractionCompany of Indiana has made a 50 per cent savingin waste and labor used in this work. At each shopare three waste cans. Two of these are kept full ofclean, saturated waste and the third is used for dirtywaste removed from the cars. When the third can isfull it is sent to Anderson where the waste is washedan
. Electric railway journal . Union Traction Company of Indiana Uses OriginalDevice in These Operations and Saves 50Per Cent in Waste and Labor BY INSTALLING, at its Anderson shops, equipmentfor washing and saturating with oil all of thewaste used at its six division shops, the Union TractionCompany of Indiana has made a 50 per cent savingin waste and labor used in this work. At each shopare three waste cans. Two of these are kept full ofclean, saturated waste and the third is used for dirtywaste removed from the cars. When the third can isfull it is sent to Anderson where the waste is washedand resaturated with hot oil. Thus waste can be usedthree or four times before it is fit only to be discarded. The particular feature of interest in the equipmentis the saturating outfit, which is represented diagram-matically in the accompanying sketch. This was builtin the local shops. It consists of a double sheet-steeltank, two draining tables and a water heater. Thetank is made of two boxes, one within the other, leaving. water-jacket space between. In the bottom, between thetwo is a pipe radiator through which hot water fromthe heater, installed for the purpose, is circulated. Thewater in the jacket is thus heated. The tank is divided into two equal parts by a verticalpartition, one side being used for saturating new andthe other for cleaning and saturating old waste. Thetanks are filled with oil which is maintained at atemperature of from 90 to 100 deg. Fahr. At each end of the tank is an inclined, covered drain-ing table, also made of sheet steel. M. F. Skouden, superintendent of motive power ofthe company, states that one man cleans and saturatesall of the waste for the system, which comprises morethan 450 miles of track and more than 350 waste can be saturated in two hours and all wasteis allowed to drain for two hours. About every tendays the old oil is run through a filtering plant andis thus reclaimed. April 19, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 777 Manufacturer
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