. The Street railway journal . uipment. The connection between the revolving brush and mainshafts is made by an intermediate sprocket, which affords perfect free-dom to the brooms while being raised or lowered. The main shaft isdriven by a sprocket chain from a motor carried in the cab. Accessis provided by a door at the side, as shown in the engraving. The Falkeneau Engineering Company has just been organizedin Philadelphia, as consulting and constructing mechanical and elec-trical engineers. The company is composed of Messrs. Keller, Will-young and Pike, all formerly connected with Queen & C
. The Street railway journal . uipment. The connection between the revolving brush and mainshafts is made by an intermediate sprocket, which affords perfect free-dom to the brooms while being raised or lowered. The main shaft isdriven by a sprocket chain from a motor carried in the cab. Accessis provided by a door at the side, as shown in the engraving. The Falkeneau Engineering Company has just been organizedin Philadelphia, as consulting and constructing mechanical and elec-trical engineers. The company is composed of Messrs. Keller, Will-young and Pike, all formerly connected with Queen & Company, andMr. Falkeneau, a well known Philadelphia engineer. with a roller, so that it will not dig into the ground even when the carenters upon a steep grade. Fig. 2 shows the fender just after a personhas been picked up. The most important claim made for the invention is in the use ofthe auxiliary screen carried just behind the main pick-up, making itpractically impossible for a person who is struck to be crushed by the. FIG. 2.—FENDER IN OPERATION. wheels. If by any accident, the person struck should fall forward onthe track, so that the front screen would pass over him, the auxiliaryscreen or fender, which is three feet in the rear and which works auto-matically, would drop down and push him off the track. This is animportant point in favor of the device. The International Register Company of Chicago, seems to haveno difficulty in securing a constant supply of orders for registers. Themachine of this company has achieved such a wide reputation that it isregarded as indispensable by many leading street railway managers. Oneof the notable contracts received by this company recently was fromthe Kansas City Cable Railway, of Kansas City, Mo., for 100 portablemachines for equipping the Grand Avenue division of the Consolidatedsystem. The lines of some of the divisions of the Kansas City Railwayhave been long users of registers, and have given them a thoroughtest, so that the
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