. American engineer and railroad journal . alare several woodworking machines, which have been in ser-vice tor a number of years and embody labor saving principleswhich are worthy of special attention. Through the courtesyof Mr. William McWood, superintendent car department of thisroad, drawings and photographs of these machines are first is a belt rail checking machine. This machine ismounted on a cast iron bed. It saws belt rails to length bymeans of saws which are mounted on a shaft extending the Nu\ I MIIKH, 190-1. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 135 length of the machine
. American engineer and railroad journal . alare several woodworking machines, which have been in ser-vice tor a number of years and embody labor saving principleswhich are worthy of special attention. Through the courtesyof Mr. William McWood, superintendent car department of thisroad, drawings and photographs of these machines are first is a belt rail checking machine. This machine ismounted on a cast iron bed. It saws belt rails to length bymeans of saws which are mounted on a shaft extending the Nu\ I MIIKH, 190-1. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 135 length of the machine and driven by a belt, shown at the leftin the elevation and photographic views. This machine car-ries three Inclined heads for gaining for the braces. Theseheads are set at the proper angle and are moved aero thebelt rails by the hand wheels, ihis work being done In theoperation separate from that of the straight gains of theposts. The straight gains are made by cutlers placed uponthe same shall with the saws. The photograph shows a belt. ■J 00 lhe other side, to take care of the different slopes each sideOf i he center of the carllns—that is to say, it would bepossible to Imild a machine which would complete the opera-lion in one cut. but as this machine turns out, on an average,Ijn carllns per hour, with one man and ;i helper, it is quitesufficient for present requirements. The changing of knives,or Utters, is accomplished by loosening one bolt in each, andthe changes can be readily made, for any requirements, infifteen minutes. As the photograph shows the machine with-out carllns In place, a sketch has been added showing thework to which this machine was set when the photograph waslaken. It is obvious that the possibilities of this arrangementof machinery, as to variety of work, are very great. While neither of these machines are new they have neverbeen illustrated, although Mr. McWood has generously supplieddrawings to other railroads for construction of similar ma-chi
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