. The Street railway journal . be suggested. One purchaser concluded to turn hisinto a hen house; a contractor pays his men every Satur-day night from an old car; one man has turned his into acarpenter shop for his boy; another car furnishes a clubhouse for young men, the lamps being useful (as well asthe curtains) when card playing is on the tapis. Alto-gether, it would seem from the Transcript article thatsuburban Boston has gone car hunting with a vengeance,and that one of the minor problems of electric railwayoperation bids fair to be solved. AN EMERGENCY CUT-OUT FOR CORLISS ENGINES. Our i
. The Street railway journal . be suggested. One purchaser concluded to turn hisinto a hen house; a contractor pays his men every Satur-day night from an old car; one man has turned his into acarpenter shop for his boy; another car furnishes a clubhouse for young men, the lamps being useful (as well asthe curtains) when card playing is on the tapis. Alto-gether, it would seem from the Transcript article thatsuburban Boston has gone car hunting with a vengeance,and that one of the minor problems of electric railwayoperation bids fair to be solved. AN EMERGENCY CUT-OUT FOR CORLISS ENGINES. Our illustration shows an extremely simple andeffective device designed by W. H. Goodwin, chiefengineer of the power station of the Atlantic AvenueRailway of Brooklyn, for quickly shutting off steam fromCorliss engines in cases of emergency. With this devicethe dash pots can instantly be released, thus shutting offall steam, without unhooking or closing the throttle ofthe engine. It is entirely independent of the governor, and con-. EMERGENCY CUT-OUT FOR CORLISS ENGINE. sists of a horizontal bracket attached to the inside of thebonnet of the admission valve by two small to the end of this bracket is a bell crank lever,one arm of which is attached to a horizontal rod, whichoperates a cam attached to the wrist pin. The lower sideof the cam is provided with a boss, which is designed toengage and release the latch of the dash pots. A verticalrod is attached to the other arm of the bell crank lever,and extends down to the floor where it is connected to aY. A horizontal rod extends from this Y to the rearend of the cylinder. To operate the device, all that is required is a slightpressure of the foot on the floor lever which, through itsconnections, operates the bell crank lever and throws thecam in contact with the latch and instantly releases thedash pots. It is constructed of quarter-inch brass pipe, andweighs, complete, less than five pounds. In large power stations where
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