. The Street railway journal . as made was the fact that the 44-ft. cars will just pass oncurves with this form as previously adopted for all carson the system. As the cars are not to be put in service before Marchit has not been stated where they will be placed in servicefirst. Before they do go into service, however, it is pro-posed to conduct a campaign to acquaint the public withtheir working, in which the daily newspapers will belargely used. The Inglewood Park Cemetery Association has placedan order in the East for a funeral car, to cost $12,000. Thisis to be used between Los Angeles and


. The Street railway journal . as made was the fact that the 44-ft. cars will just pass oncurves with this form as previously adopted for all carson the system. As the cars are not to be put in service before Marchit has not been stated where they will be placed in servicefirst. Before they do go into service, however, it is pro-posed to conduct a campaign to acquaint the public withtheir working, in which the daily newspapers will belargely used. The Inglewood Park Cemetery Association has placedan order in the East for a funeral car, to cost $12,000. Thisis to be used between Los Angeles and the cemetery on theelectric line of the Los Angeles & Redondo Railway. u5° STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 24. A SIMPLE BAND SAW SHARPENER Practically every large modern wood working shop isequipped with a more or less expensive automatic bandsaw sharpener, but the smaller users of band saws, with oneor two saws a week to sharpen, which would not warranta large machine, are still using the hand file. It is for the. BAND SAW SHARPENER. benefit of the latter that the Rotary File & Machine Com-pany of Brooklyn, N. Y., is now making what it calls itsIdeal sharpener for operation either by hand or machine is adapted for filing small band saws, rangingin size up to and including saws with teeth y2 in. from toothpoint to tooth point and i}4 ins. width of blade. The visewhich carries the saw is clamped together by spring pres-sure sufficient to hold the saw firmly, yet allowing it to beslipped through as each tooth is filed. At each revolutionof the file shaft, the file is automatically withdrawn fromengagement with a tooth, dropped back, and just as the smooth portion of its circumference reaches the saw, itshoves the saw along for the next tooth. The amount ofthis movement is regulated according to the size of thesaw tooth by a thumb screw. The file is controlled by camsto only cut a certain depth each time, and this featurealways insures accurate and even teeth.


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