. The Street railway journal . hich eighteen car loads of electric machinery, consigned to the Port-land General Electric Company, were destroyed. The Battie Automatic Switch. A simple and effective automatic switch has recently been patentedby Dr. F. B. Battie, of 345 West 45th Street, New York, and is shownin the accompanying engraving. The switch consists of an iron plate 22 feet long and 13 incheswide, located in the centre of the track. In this plate are two movablelugs. Passed through the lugs underneath is a horizontal bar on whichthe lugs are pivoted. Two vertical steel rods are attach
. The Street railway journal . hich eighteen car loads of electric machinery, consigned to the Port-land General Electric Company, were destroyed. The Battie Automatic Switch. A simple and effective automatic switch has recently been patentedby Dr. F. B. Battie, of 345 West 45th Street, New York, and is shownin the accompanying engraving. The switch consists of an iron plate 22 feet long and 13 incheswide, located in the centre of the track. In this plate are two movablelugs. Passed through the lugs underneath is a horizontal bar on whichthe lugs are pivoted. Two vertical steel rods are attached to the frontplatform of the car by a spiral spring 12 inches in length. These rodsare provided with steps by which they are pressed down to engage thelugs, which throw the switch. By pressing down one or the other ofthe vertical rods the car is switched to the right or left as length of the switch plate is sufficent to allow the switch to beoperated at any time within a distance of 12 to 15 feet, and not requir-. THE BATTIE AUTOMATIC SWITCH. ing the motorman to press down the vertical rod at any given operation can be seen from the platform of the car 15 feet beforethe car wheels reach the switch tongue. The centre plates are only 13 inches wide, and equally adaptableto electric or cable roads. The switch has been in operation on the Atlantic Avenue Railwayof Brooklyn for the last six weeks, and has given excellent satisfaction. Recent Work of the Mather Electric Company. The Mather Electric Company, of Manchester, Conn., reportsthe sale of one of its 180 K. w., improved, new type multipolar railwaygenerators, with complete station equipment, to the Hartford & WestHartford Horse Railway Company, for the Hartford (Conn.) powerhouse. The generator is to replace a 200 K. w. generator of othermanufacture, which after a two weeks attempt on the part of itsmakers to make run successfully, was thrown out. In thirty-six hoursafter placing the order, the Mather
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