. Electric railway gazette . Illinois. Filed July 21,1894. There is a series of oscillat-ing gripping jaws wiohiu. the socket; each having acurved eccentric with the center of oscillation ofthe jaw. Mean? are provided for preventing disengage-ment of the handle from the brake staff during opera-tion, yet admitting of the rotation of tbe handle upon oraround the staff. 531,5S2. Railway-Car Brake; William Baxter,Jr., Baltimore, Md. Filed Dec. 12,1891. A brake-shafcis mounted upon one end piece, a cross head on thebrakeshaft, the brake-beam being supported from tbeend piece. Bell-crank leve


. Electric railway gazette . Illinois. Filed July 21,1894. There is a series of oscillat-ing gripping jaws wiohiu. the socket; each having acurved eccentric with the center of oscillation ofthe jaw. Mean? are provided for preventing disengage-ment of the handle from the brake staff during opera-tion, yet admitting of the rotation of tbe handle upon oraround the staff. 531,5S2. Railway-Car Brake; William Baxter,Jr., Baltimore, Md. Filed Dec. 12,1891. A brake-shafcis mounted upon one end piece, a cross head on thebrakeshaft, the brake-beam being supported from tbeend piece. Bell-crank levers are mounted upon the re-spective ends of the brake-beam, links connecting theends of the bell-crank levers with the cross-head onthe brake-shaft, and a controlling lever is also connectedwith this brake-shaft. 531,596. Brakf-Handle; James W. Paterson, Chi-cago. III., Assignor to the a dams & Westlake Company,of Illinois. Filed July 25, 1894. The brake handle has alower socket, a plate held within tbe socket, a brake. No. 531,4 which extend across the conduit. Castings form theentrance slot for the trolley, supported on the sub-masonry and crossbeams and secured to the latter, thecastings having inward extending knee braces restingon the crossbeams. No. Btatf. a hub, mounted on the staff, having a circum-ferential groove, a series of friction rolls confined be-tween the faces of the plate and hub, respectively, anda screw or pin projecting through the socket into thegroove, whereby the socket may turn upon the hub be prevented from detachment therefrom. Brake Handle; Plato G. Emery, Chicago,. Assignor to the Adams & Westlake Company, ofIllinois. Filed on July 25, 1894. The brake handle hasa lower socket provided with an inner grooved annularsurface, a brake staff and a carrier having a series ofslots or depressions eccentrically arranged with respectto the axis of the brake staff, and inclined from a linehorizontal with said axis. A series of ba


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