. Electric railway gazette . umination of the train. The powerful motors are ofthe gearless type, and will be a considerable improvementupon those first experimented with. The switchboardstands in from of the driver, who has under his hand thedifferent controlling and braking levers and handles. Thewhole of this compact railway central station will be housed and pounding motion of the steam locomotive. The experi-ment is being watched with keen interest by the railwaycompanies in France. Trolley Pole Restrainer. A patent has been granted to Frank Wheeler, of Meri-den, Conn., for a trolley car
. Electric railway gazette . umination of the train. The powerful motors are ofthe gearless type, and will be a considerable improvementupon those first experimented with. The switchboardstands in from of the driver, who has under his hand thedifferent controlling and braking levers and handles. Thewhole of this compact railway central station will be housed and pounding motion of the steam locomotive. The experi-ment is being watched with keen interest by the railwaycompanies in France. Trolley Pole Restrainer. A patent has been granted to Frank Wheeler, of Meri-den, Conn., for a trolley car attachment, which we illus-trate, whose object is to prevent damage when the trolleywheel leaves the conducting wire. As is well known, whenthe trolley jumps the wire, the pole spring causes thetrolley to move past and above the wire. Owing to thefact that the trolley cord has considerable slack in order toallow it to meet variations in height of the wire above theground, the pole often flies upward to such a distance that Q. TROLLEY POLE RE3TRAINER. damage to the supports of the trolley wire or other over-head work results. The object of Mr. Wheelers inven-tion is the production of a simple attachment which will bequickly and certainly operated automatically to pull downthe trolley pole as soon as the trolley wheel leaves the the car platform close to the dashboard is a verticaltube, shown in part of its length in the illustrations, whichcontains a spring and trip mechanism. This tube has aslot in one side with an enlargement at the lower end con-taining a spring and a drum or reel mounted on a spindlehaving bearings in the wall of the casing. The drum has
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