. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . AIR MOTORS. packing strips, one taking air on each sideof the plug at the same time. This form ofmotor is largely minus the elegantwobble given to the eccentric plug af-fair. The people at Horton have madeone that has two of these elliptical cylin-ders, and the shaft of each plug—I call itthat for want of a better name—carries asmall pinion that meshes into the oppositesides of a large gear, journaled betweenthe cylinders and encased in the shaft of this large gear carries thedrill chuck, tap or
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . AIR MOTORS. packing strips, one taking air on each sideof the plug at the same time. This form ofmotor is largely minus the elegantwobble given to the eccentric plug af-fair. The people at Horton have madeone that has two of these elliptical cylin-ders, and the shaft of each plug—I call itthat for want of a better name—carries asmall pinion that meshes into the oppositesides of a large gear, journaled betweenthe cylinders and encased in the shaft of this large gear carries thedrill chuck, tap or reamer. The motorsarc run at high speed, and the drill runsslower: there being no jerk at all. nobreaking of small drills in stay-bolt LocowoTvr f ivaC»i*o, W. 10 DOUBLE CYLINDER GEARED MOTOR. intendent of motive power and machinery,is located here, and that alone makes Hor-ton worthy of a visit from a railroad dont know that all the unique tools Isaw at Horton originated there. That iswhere I saw them, anyway. THE The first thing I noticed was a big popvalve, on an air storage tank outside oneof the buildings, making a fuss, and in-quiry showed that this was the only meansof relief when the compressor had pumpedup the maximum pressure of air. The This tool is worth building for the mar-ket. CITTHR. They cut ofif stay bolts with a doublepiston aflfair, the construction of whichwill be plain from the sketch shown here-with. Air is admitted between the pistonsof a 16 or 18-inch cylinder to do thework; the shear being hung up by a bal-ancing yoke reaching from the side of thecylinder to the fulcrum piece between thejaws, near the cutting edge. This tool issmaller than many used f
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