. The Street railway journal . FIG. PONT TRUCK FOR STORAGE BATTERY C The battery trays are carried at each end of the table onrollers, supported on a frame which is raised or loweredby an electric niator. The rollers are connected by meansof skew-bevel gears to an electric motor so that by turningthe rollers, the battery is moved on or off the table. Thecharging tables, shown at each side of the elevator car, arealso fitted with similar rollers, and a clutch is arranged to S. FIG. 10.—BATTERY TRAY CLIP. finally in series with the necessary intermediate transitionpoints. There are four se


. The Street railway journal . FIG. PONT TRUCK FOR STORAGE BATTERY C The battery trays are carried at each end of the table onrollers, supported on a frame which is raised or loweredby an electric niator. The rollers are connected by meansof skew-bevel gears to an electric motor so that by turningthe rollers, the battery is moved on or off the table. Thecharging tables, shown at each side of the elevator car, arealso fitted with similar rollers, and a clutch is arranged to S. FIG. 10.—BATTERY TRAY CLIP. finally in series with the necessary intermediate transitionpoints. There are four sets of contact plates fastened on thesides of the tray and connected to these four sets of bat-teries. When the battery tray is elevated to position onthe cars, contact is made automatically to the controllerwiring through spring contact plates fastened to the car Dbckmbrr, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 753 sills and shown in detail in Vig. 10. vSpring contact platesare also provided at the sides of the charging tables in th


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