. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed to take a wrench but with thediagonal of the square left to the full^-in. diameter so that the thread cut atthat end appears on the corners. This and spring F for working in the ratchet. The nut G is screwed to the upper endof the body A and with a bearing againstthe top of the same serves to hold thepawl and ratchet in line. Bearing against the top of the body andinside the threads of the nut is the springH, which by being compressed by the nutK through the washers /, serves to put apress
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed to take a wrench but with thediagonal of the square left to the full^-in. diameter so that the thread cut atthat end appears on the corners. This and spring F for working in the ratchet. The nut G is screwed to the upper endof the body A and with a bearing againstthe top of the same serves to hold thepawl and ratchet in line. Bearing against the top of the body andinside the threads of the nut is the springH, which by being compressed by the nutK through the washers /, serves to put apressure on the body sufiicient to forcethe cutting edges of the fluted end againstthe plate to be countersunk, the thrust the running down of the nut K in thestem B. To facilitate a rapid adjustmentof the nut K against the spring the formeris knurled, as shown on one of its cir-cumferences. COUNTERSINK RATCHET FOR TATCH BOLTS, being carried by the stem B, which isscrewed into the plate. This stem B is first screwed into theplate by means of a wrench on its squaredend. Then the bodv and handle with the. February, 1922 RAILWAY AM) LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 51 Notes on Foreign Railways Electric Equipment for Australia The Victorian Govuriinunt is about toissue a loan of £2,000,(XX). it is understood,for the purpose f obtaining funds to fi-nance the Morwell electricity scheme. Thetotal cost of this project for producingelectric power from brown coal, or lignite,at Morwell, Victoria, and transmitting itabout 90 miles to Melbourne, is estimatedat £15,000,000. Much of the e(iuipment forthis scheme has already been ordered inAmerica. Electrification of Central Railway ofBrazil A complete translation of the announce-ment and call for tenders for the electri-fication of certain lines of the Central doBrazil Railway, the supply of traction andtransport naterial, and material for con-struction of substations has been forwardedto the Bureau by Consul General Rio de Janeiro. The specifi
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