. American engineer and railroad journal . are ofthe self-cooling type. These are all filled with oil. except the1%-kw. transformer, which is filled with a solid insulatingcompound that the company finds is a more rapid conductorof heat than an air chamber around the coils. 800 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. NEW COMBINED PLANING, MATCHING AND JOINTINGMACHINE. A heavy six-roll, double-cylinder planing and matching ma-chine has just been placed on the market by the J. A. Fay &Egan Company. This is the largest and heaviest combinedplaner and matcher made by this company and is especially
. American engineer and railroad journal . are ofthe self-cooling type. These are all filled with oil. except the1%-kw. transformer, which is filled with a solid insulatingcompound that the company finds is a more rapid conductorof heat than an air chamber around the coils. 800 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. NEW COMBINED PLANING, MATCHING AND JOINTINGMACHINE. A heavy six-roll, double-cylinder planing and matching ma-chine has just been placed on the market by the J. A. Fay &Egan Company. This is the largest and heaviest combinedplaner and matcher made by this company and is especiallyadapted for railroad car and repair shops and planing mills. Itwill plane material 30 ins. wide, 14 ins. thick and will worksimultaneously of two pieces of material of uneventhickness up to 12 ins. wide and 14 ins. thick. The frame of themachine is massive, perfectly jointed and bolted to insure rigid-ity. The cylinders are made from solid forged steel and slottedon all faces. The matching devices are very substantial and. Double-Cylinder Planing and Matching Machine. are fitted with a patent weighted matcher clip for workingcross-grained and knotty lumber. This assures more rapidand accurate work. The feed rolls are eight inches in diam-eter, connected by a train of heavy expansion gearing withdouble links, heavily weighted. In the construction of themachine are embodied many devices of convenience for doingwork in the most accurate and rapid manner. The builderswill furnish upon application any information regarding thisor any other of their special car shop wood-working machin-ery, and will also send free of charge their illustrated address of the J. A. Fay & Egan Company js No. 409W. Front street, Cincinnati, Ohio. rolling process; the journals are put into high speed lathesand polished with emery. The opinion of Mr. Canfleld, of the Philadelphia and Read-ing, was adverse. He said: We do not think it is good prac-tice to use the roller. The object of
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