. The Street railway journal . -♦♦*- AN IMPROVED CAR JOURNAL BEARING That cool running and durability should be the essential. fig. 1 -BRONZE SHELL FOR JOURNALBEARING FIG. 2.—SHOWINI LINE OF BRONZE FIG. 4.—INSIDE VIEW OF CAR JOURNAL BEARING BEFORE BABBITTING, SHOWING THE CROWN OF BRONZE FITTED TO THE EXACT SIZE OF THE JOURNAL interest to electric railways, it is described and illustrated here-with. The accompanying Fig. 1 illustrates the bronze shell, madeaccording to a formula insuring exceptional durability. Thebearing point is of the same curvature as the journal, so thatshould the babbitt
. The Street railway journal . -♦♦*- AN IMPROVED CAR JOURNAL BEARING That cool running and durability should be the essential. fig. 1 -BRONZE SHELL FOR JOURNALBEARING FIG. 2.—SHOWINI LINE OF BRONZE FIG. 4.—INSIDE VIEW OF CAR JOURNAL BEARING BEFORE BABBITTING, SHOWING THE CROWN OF BRONZE FITTED TO THE EXACT SIZE OF THE JOURNAL interest to electric railways, it is described and illustrated here-with. The accompanying Fig. 1 illustrates the bronze shell, madeaccording to a formula insuring exceptional durability. Thebearing point is of the same curvature as the journal, so thatshould the babbitt be melted out from any cause, the journalwould find a perfectly fitted body in which it could run method of babbitting is certainly new and most roads use a plain lead lining of about 3-16 of aninch tinned to a shell bored to the circumference of the jour-nal, Mr. Stiles plans for a much thicker coating of babbittwhich is interlocked to the shell by the ingenious methodshown in Fig. 4. As the journal wears the babbitt lining, itrests in a bed fitted to it at all 2 shows how the
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