. The Street railway journal . - capacity. PORTABLE AXLE KEYSEATER. The accompanying engraving shows a new type of portablekeyseater, adapted especially to truing up worn keyseats on theaxles of electric cars without removing the wheels. Themachine will operate onaxles up to 6 ins. indiameter, and has aparallel movement of 8ins. without resetting. Itwill close up to the hub ofthe wheel, and the ma-chine can be clamped onan axle and the keyseattrued up in less than halfan hour. The frame of the ma-chine is made of V-form,so that when clamped tothe axle it will be parallel,and keyseats cut will
. The Street railway journal . - capacity. PORTABLE AXLE KEYSEATER. The accompanying engraving shows a new type of portablekeyseater, adapted especially to truing up worn keyseats on theaxles of electric cars without removing the wheels. Themachine will operate onaxles up to 6 ins. indiameter, and has aparallel movement of 8ins. without resetting. Itwill close up to the hub ofthe wheel, and the ma-chine can be clamped onan axle and the keyseattrued up in less than halfan hour. The frame of the ma-chine is made of V-form,so that when clamped tothe axle it will be parallel,and keyseats cut will beradial. The cutter-spindle portable keyseater is carried by a turntable on the slide, the set-over for truing up worn keyseats beingobtained by means of a worm and wheel adjustment. The partcarrying the spindle is provided with a down-feed screw so thatthe spindle can be lowered to the proper position and locked. The machine is placed on the market by John T. Burr & Son,of Brooklyn, N. Y. AMERICAN INSTITUTE NOMINATIONS At the meeting of the Board of Directo
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