. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . found a decided improve-ment upon all former means of transportationfor grain, lime, bacon, and other similarfreight, as well as coal. A model of the car can be seen at the officeof the Little Miami Railroad — LawrenceMyers, is the Patentee. Communicationsmay be addressed to him, or to C. TiersMyers, No. 33 Walnut street, Philadelphia. 548 RAILROAD RECORD. COPLEYS COMPOUND CAR-AXLE. It is ever a source of pleasure to us tocommend any improvement having for its aimthe lessening of the liability to unavoidableacci
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . found a decided improve-ment upon all former means of transportationfor grain, lime, bacon, and other similarfreight, as well as coal. A model of the car can be seen at the officeof the Little Miami Railroad — LawrenceMyers, is the Patentee. Communicationsmay be addressed to him, or to C. TiersMyers, No. 33 Walnut street, Philadelphia. 548 RAILROAD RECORD. COPLEYS COMPOUND CAR-AXLE. It is ever a source of pleasure to us tocommend any improvement having for its aimthe lessening of the liability to unavoidableaccidents upon railroads. Such an inventionwe deem Mr. Copleys new axle. An atten-tive perusal of the following article willclearly demonstrate its practicability for run-ning over crooked or straight roads withfacility—with great saving of tractive power,and a largely decreased risk of injury frombroken axles or wheels. It would seem thatthe desiderata of wheels moving independentf each other upon the same axle has beenarrived at, and that the inventor may safelyshout FIGURE I. Like letters refer to like parts in the differ-ent views. AA are the wheels; BB, the journals; C,the hollow section of the axle; D, the solidsection. P, a band around the axle. G, aset screw which passes through the band intothe key I, which key is fitted into a morticein the hollow section C.
Size: 2562px × 976px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, bookidrailroadreco, bookyear1853
