. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 4 * 2!^-inch links, extending down to the bendingarms. These arms are journaled into theframe on the rear side, and into a heavybar at the front, and are at such a distancefrom center to center as will bring theirfaces, when in a vertical position, equal to 167 The forming block has outside dimen-ilie finished inside face ofthe yoke, and the latter, as a flat bar, islaid on the top of the block as a prelimi-nary to fhe bending, after which air is ad-mitted to the cylinders and the bendingarms turn on the
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 4 * 2!^-inch links, extending down to the bendingarms. These arms are journaled into theframe on the rear side, and into a heavybar at the front, and are at such a distancefrom center to center as will bring theirfaces, when in a vertical position, equal to 167 The forming block has outside dimen-ilie finished inside face ofthe yoke, and the latter, as a flat bar, islaid on the top of the block as a prelimi-nary to fhe bending, after which air is ad-mitted to the cylinders and the bendingarms turn on their journals, forcing thebar down against and parallel to the sidesof the block. Since the bar is held firmlyat the top, the metal cannot free itself in. over-all depth of the yoke when below the bending arms is theblock former, over which the bar for theyoke is bent. This block is bolted se-curely to the frame and has slotted holesfor adjustment; the bolts, however, arenot depended on to hold it vertically, thisbeing accomplished by means of an eccen-tric on the end of a short shaft, and actu-ated by the lever shown at the rear of themachine. Locomotive Enu1 any direction, and must therefore comefrom the die square and true. The sec-tion D E gives a clear idea of the amount ofmetal in the frame and block. This machine is responsible for its exist-ence to Superintendent of Motive PowerTurner, of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts-burg Railway, who has brought out manygood things in tools operated by com-pressed air. 168 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, Time Necessary for Building; a Lo-comotive. There is an article going the rounds ofthe technical press about the rapidity withwhich a locomotive was built in a Frenchrailway shop
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