. The car builders' dictionary; an illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railway cars, their parts, attachments, and details of construction .. . -cation mark legibly cast or stamped at some pointwhere it will not be worn off. 1, hereafter specified. If the coupler fails to stand theprescribed tests but, before failing, stands a sufficientnumber of blows to make a retest admissible, a secondcoupler shall be taken from the same lot from whichthe first coupler was taken. If it stands the test, thatlot of couplers shall be accepted as far as test No. 1is concerned; otherwise th
. The car builders' dictionary; an illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railway cars, their parts, attachments, and details of construction .. . -cation mark legibly cast or stamped at some pointwhere it will not be worn off. 1, hereafter specified. If the coupler fails to stand theprescribed tests but, before failing, stands a sufficientnumber of blows to make a retest admissible, a secondcoupler shall be taken from the same lot from whichthe first coupler was taken. If it stands the test, thatlot of couplers shall be accepted as far as test No. 1is concerned; otherwise that lot of couplers shall berejected and another lot substituted and tested in thesame way. 2. From each 1,004 couplers accepted by test No. 1four complete couplers shall be selected by the in-spector, one of which shall be subject to test No. 2,one to test No. 3 and two to test No. 4, hereafterspecified. If any coupler or pair of couplers fails tostand the prescribed test but, before failing, stands asufficient number of blows to make a retest admissible,a second coupler or pair shall be taken from the samelot or lots from which the first were taken. For in-. test fig. a AFTER TEST TEST MCTMOO OW MCAOUAlNG IN TT«T NO _- ■ C MCACUACO AXIAl. OCri_CCTION AND ~U»T HOT CXCCCO ■* „ AB-A» MCASunca hnuckix closure and miat NOT CXCCCO £ FIG.**.AFTER TEST Tca-r nok. AlNC OeTLXCTlOAl IN TC1T NOC- .. OCKUCCTlOM AMO MUST MOT CXCCCO l& ^Oft MCTMOO Or MCASUAlNC OcnXCTlOMA B MCASURCO AXU _ WITN SxrCMANM ON !£ FOA COUAfcCAA WITH AAA OMANM ^CO-CO MCASURC3 CVAOO AXM OttTOAT>ON AND MU»T NOT «CCU| 8. Every coupler complying with the above require-ments must have legibly cast in raised letters on thehead, and in plain view where they will not be wornoff, the letters M. C. B.; this mark to be evidencethat the coupler is an M. C. B. standard. INSPECTION. 1. The couplers, after having been thoroughly in-spected by the manufacturer to see that
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