. The Street railway journal . umps being so con-structed as to keep it at aconstant pressure. T h eheart, so to speak, of thesystem is the oiling table, which contains the pumps. Theusual form of table has four pumps, two for cylinder oil andtwo for engine oil. Ordinarily only one pump is kept run-ning for one kind of oil, and the other is held as a are direct-acting duplex pumps, and on the top ofeach steam-chest is a special governor for individual, auto-matic control There is a gage for both engine and cylinderoils, so that the engineer can see from a distance whetherthe prope
. The Street railway journal . umps being so con-structed as to keep it at aconstant pressure. T h eheart, so to speak, of thesystem is the oiling table, which contains the pumps. Theusual form of table has four pumps, two for cylinder oil andtwo for engine oil. Ordinarily only one pump is kept run-ning for one kind of oil, and the other is held as a are direct-acting duplex pumps, and on the top ofeach steam-chest is a special governor for individual, auto-matic control There is a gage for both engine and cylinderoils, so that the engineer can see from a distance whetherthe proper pressure is being maintained. The steam for thepumps is supplied by a J^-in. pipe in which is a steam piping on the table and the legs and pipes underneath plying the engine with oil is shut off. All the engine oil on anengine is controlled by one valve and all the cylinder od by anothervalve, so that it is not necessary to open and set or close cups orlubricators each time an engine is started or stopped. The usual. ( IN*- FOUR-PUMP TABLE
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