. The street railway review . ENGINE ROOM-LOUISVILLE RAILWAY CO. 440 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol, IX, No. sliop consists of 4 lathes, 3 drill presses, i planer, I shaper,I bolt machine, i boring machine and i wheel press. There are eight car pits, each provided with a car hoist ofMr. Cooks design. This hoist is shown in detail in one of at the front end of the car pit. The driving pnlley, markedA in the drawing is on a vertical shaft wliich has a bev-eled friction pulley at the top. The vertical shaft is drivenfrom a shaft placed below the floor in a transverse pit ex-. REPAIR SHOP OI LOUISVIL
. The street railway review . ENGINE ROOM-LOUISVILLE RAILWAY CO. 440 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol, IX, No. sliop consists of 4 lathes, 3 drill presses, i planer, I shaper,I bolt machine, i boring machine and i wheel press. There are eight car pits, each provided with a car hoist ofMr. Cooks design. This hoist is shown in detail in one of at the front end of the car pit. The driving pnlley, markedA in the drawing is on a vertical shaft wliich has a bev-eled friction pulley at the top. The vertical shaft is drivenfrom a shaft placed below the floor in a transverse pit ex-. REPAIR SHOP OI LOUISVILLE RAILWAY CO. the large drawings, and reproductions from photographsof one of the pits and of the cars when raised are given, andthe method of operation will be apparent from an inspectionof these illustrations. The car body is lifted by two I-beams, each of which is moved vertically by two squarethreaded screws; the screws are prevented from rotating bybeing rigidly fastened to the I-beams at their upper nuts for these screws are bushings in the hubs of wheels; they have their bearing on balls resting tending the length of the building. The screws are driveneither up or down by throwing in contact one or the otherof two smaller beveled pulleys. The smaller beveled pulleysare mounted on a splined sleeve so that they may be movedlengthwise of main driving shaft, but turn with it; they arethrown in and out of contact by means of a lever connectedto the hub. The main driving shaft extends along the eight pits, hav-ing a pair of pulleys for e
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