. American engineer and railroad journal . The bins herein illustrated are made in the form of a gigan-tic cabinet. Flat pieces of steel form the back and dividingpartitions, upright and horizontal, and stove bolts through the angles make the entire bin secure and permit of shelves are held at the front by shelf supports, when it isdesired to use the shelf as a bin to prevent small material fromfalling out, but when to be used simply as a shelf it is sup-ported by a hanger. The general design may be likened to the ordinary egg is made up of a continuous center partition
. American engineer and railroad journal . The bins herein illustrated are made in the form of a gigan-tic cabinet. Flat pieces of steel form the back and dividingpartitions, upright and horizontal, and stove bolts through the angles make the entire bin secure and permit of shelves are held at the front by shelf supports, when it isdesired to use the shelf as a bin to prevent small material fromfalling out, but when to be used simply as a shelf it is sup-ported by a hanger. The general design may be likened to the ordinary egg is made up of a continuous center partition or back, the fulllength of the bin. This center partition, which is a bick for a. single face bin, serves as a center of dividing back partition fora double face bin. The uprights at right angles to the centerpartition or back carry a part of the shelf load, the shelves beingattached to them at the front and back by stove bolts. Besidesthe back and uprights, the bottom and top shelves tie the con-struction firmly together. The bin section can be erected withordinary labor, the only tool necessary being something totighten the stove bolts. These bins have been put through some severe and conclusivetests, which are clearly shown in the accompanying illustrations,with the idea, of course, to prove their strength and utility. Onestringent test was the placing of heavy loads in the various com-partments of a section; slabs of spelter, averaging 63 lbs. each,being used. The bins were loaded from 819 to 1,827 lbs., andwith a total weight of spelter in the section of 15,220 lbs.—morethan yVz tons—there was no apparent deflection at any point. The indestructible and fir
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