. Electric railway journal . SHOE EASILY REMOVED FROM GROOVE WHEN NECESSARY The bottom rod may be grasped at any point with eitherhand and the curtain raised or lowered smoothly andeasily. No pinch handles are necessary. It is asserted that no matter how rapidly or howroughly the curtain may be operated, the tips cannot bejerked from the grooves, as a metal retaining strip,fastened to the window casing along the edge of eachgroove, effectually prevents the accidental displacement. RETAINING STRIP PREVENTS ACCIDENTAL MISPLACEMENT of the shoes. The tendency of the tips of other typesof curtain t
. Electric railway journal . SHOE EASILY REMOVED FROM GROOVE WHEN NECESSARY The bottom rod may be grasped at any point with eitherhand and the curtain raised or lowered smoothly andeasily. No pinch handles are necessary. It is asserted that no matter how rapidly or howroughly the curtain may be operated, the tips cannot bejerked from the grooves, as a metal retaining strip,fastened to the window casing along the edge of eachgroove, effectually prevents the accidental displacement. RETAINING STRIP PREVENTS ACCIDENTAL MISPLACEMENT of the shoes. The tendency of the tips of other typesof curtain to leave the grooves if the finger pieces arepressed too strongly, or if the curtain is raised or low-ered too rapidly, is a source of much annoyance to pas-sengers and what is more apparent, of considerable dam-age to the curtain and the finish of the window casing. February 6, 1915] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 299 The retaining strips, while keeping the shoes in thegrooves under all conditions of operation, do not inter-fere with the ready removal of the curtain when neces-sary. Each strip terminates lV-t in. below the upper endof its groove and the friction shoe may be tilted andwithdrawn through this opening. However, the shoe isnearly twice as long as this opening and it will not slideout under use. The removal of the curtain must be in-tentional, in which case it is easily and quickly effected. The simplicity of this curtain fixture is apparent fromthe accompanying secti
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