. The Street railway journal . THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Vail Car Starter. The principle upon whioh the starter op-erates is that of causing the horses to re-volve the wheel before they really put anydraft on the body of the car at all. Inorder to accomplish this the device shownin the accompanying engravings is consists primarily of a ratchet wheelplaced upon the axle of the car and so ar-ranged that a pawl can be dropped in it,when the drawbar is drawn out in the di-rection in which the car is moving. Fig. arm, reaching out and attached by meansof a rod to a drawbar which has a ver
. The Street railway journal . THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Vail Car Starter. The principle upon whioh the starter op-erates is that of causing the horses to re-volve the wheel before they really put anydraft on the body of the car at all. Inorder to accomplish this the device shownin the accompanying engravings is consists primarily of a ratchet wheelplaced upon the axle of the car and so ar-ranged that a pawl can be dropped in it,when the drawbar is drawn out in the di-rection in which the car is moving. Fig. arm, reaching out and attached by meansof a rod to a drawbar which has a very longreach or travel before it will make a directpull upon the car itself. In the forkedlever, which has its beariDgs upon eitherside of the machine, will be found a tiltingplate, shown in Fig. 6, and a pawl whichis shown in all the engravings, and so ar-ranged that the lever marked F is slightlyraised when the bar is drawn somewhatforward. The lever F, it will be seen, hasaslotte 1arm with a catch at one end into which the.
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