. Electric railway journal . POLE EXTENSION New Feature in Casing for Jet Condensers ANEW feature in thevertically split casingof the tail-pump for verticaljet condensers, as manufac-tured by the Wheeler Con-denser & Engineering Com-pany, Carteret, N. J., hasbeen brought out, and is il-lustrated herewith. Thisfeature permits easy andquick removal of the pumprotor or other internal partsfor inspection or improvement is beingadded to two types of jetcondensers manufactured bythis company, the verticaljet condenser and the rect-angular type counter-currentcondenser. Another featureis
. Electric railway journal . POLE EXTENSION New Feature in Casing for Jet Condensers ANEW feature in thevertically split casingof the tail-pump for verticaljet condensers, as manufac-tured by the Wheeler Con-denser & Engineering Com-pany, Carteret, N. J., hasbeen brought out, and is il-lustrated herewith. Thisfeature permits easy andquick removal of the pumprotor or other internal partsfor inspection or improvement is beingadded to two types of jetcondensers manufactured bythis company, the verticaljet condenser and the rect-angular type counter-currentcondenser. Another featureis the use of an expansionjoint between the pump and the condenser body. Thisjoint is designed to take care of changes in length dueto temperature VERTICALLY SPLIT CASING OP PUMP Concrete Stringer Tieless TrackConstruction Southern Public Utilities Company Has Standard-ized on Unique Construction, Believing It to Bethe Most Satisfactory Type of Rigid Track A RIGID type of track construction with the railsset in concrete and anchored by means of longhook bolts and without the use of any cross-ties, hasbeen made standard construction by the Southern PublicUtilities Company, which operates the street railwaysystems Charlotte and Winston-Salem, N. C, and Green-ville and Anderson, S. C. This construction was orig-inated by E. F. Taylor, formerly general manager ofthe company, and is unique in many respects. The most conspicuous feature of the construction isthe absence of ties. The rails are fastened by Carnegieclips directly to f-in. x 8-in. steel plates, and the boltin every other clip extends dovvm into a concrete beamand hooks around a J-in. corrugated iron bar whichis laid continuous. The complete construction detailsare shown i
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