. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ckness; the otherof J4-in. steel plate. The latter designre practicable, as it occupies less1 height. The slide rests on tourtrunk rollers, which are riveted to the same. operation of the slide is by alever which is fulcrumcd on the insideof the cab poof. One end of the leverrests on a guide with three notches,whii h hold the slide in either the closed,half-open, or full open positions. Rub-ber weather strips are attached to frameami ventilator. As will be seen in thedrawing, the slides overl
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ckness; the otherof J4-in. steel plate. The latter designre practicable, as it occupies less1 height. The slide rests on tourtrunk rollers, which are riveted to the same. operation of the slide is by alever which is fulcrumcd on the insideof the cab poof. One end of the leverrests on a guide with three notches,whii h hold the slide in either the closed,half-open, or full open positions. Rub-ber weather strips are attached to frameami ventilator. As will be seen in thedrawing, the slides overlap the frame-work, and there is no possibility ofwater accumulating either on the slideor guides. The engineers and firemen speakhighly of the improved ventilator, andthey are being rapidly installed. Thedevice is the work of Mr. George , mechanical engineer of the road,who has perfected a number of im-provements in locomotives and carequipment. The most intelligently advertised ar-ticle that we are acquainted with is Vimleather air-brake cup packing which ispushed through The Houghton CAB VENTILATOR ON THE C. R. R. OF N. J. opening, the side members of the frameextend beyond the opening to formguides for the sliding door or ventila-tor. Two types of slideare shown, one Every air brake man ought to read thatinteresting little magazine which will besent free on application to E. F. Hough-ton & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 162 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. April, 1911. Locomotive Running Repairs XIV.—Refitting Driving Boxes. The inevitable wear of the bearingsof the axles of locomotives both as ap-plied to the axle and also to the hubsof the driving wheels render the refit-ting and also the reinforcing of thedriving boxes an occasional carefully fitted, the drivingboxes may have been, it will soon befound that there is lost motion in theirrelation to the axle and also in theirlateral adjustment that calls for a re-fitting of the parts. The setting
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