. American engineer and railroad journal . FIG. 10. AN INTERESTING MOTOR DRIVE UPON A HEAVY BETTS PLANER. USING AN UNUSUALLY HEAVY MOTOR. This shows a large open-side planer, built by the Detrick &Harvey Machine Company, Baltimore, Md., which is equippedfor motor-driving, using the belt-drive. The countershaft ofthis machine is specially mounted upon standards, secured tothe tops of the housings of the planer, and of such a height asto give sufficient length to the operating belts, the belts operat-ing the raising and lowering of the cross-rail being the onesthat deter
. American engineer and railroad journal . FIG. 10. AN INTERESTING MOTOR DRIVE UPON A HEAVY BETTS PLANER. USING AN UNUSUALLY HEAVY MOTOR. This shows a large open-side planer, built by the Detrick &Harvey Machine Company, Baltimore, Md., which is equippedfor motor-driving, using the belt-drive. The countershaft ofthis machine is specially mounted upon standards, secured tothe tops of the housings of the planer, and of such a height asto give sufficient length to the operating belts, the belts operat-ing the raising and lowering of the cross-rail being the onesthat determined this height. This makes necessary the seem-ingly high arrangement of shaft supports, but with thisarrangement the motor can be placed in any convenient posi-tion, as is shown. In Fig. 12, which is a view of the style of
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