. American engineer and railroad journal . great improvement over the design of the uniform wooden binssuch as are ordinarily encountered in railroad storehouses, andwrhich unquestionably waste a vast amount of space, as all binsare of the same size, irrespective of the variation in demandfor the objects which they The bins herein illustrated are made in the form of a gigan-tic cabinet. Flat pieces of steel form the back and dividingpartitions, upright and horizontal, and stove bolts through the angles make the entire bin secure and permit of shelves are held at the fr
. American engineer and railroad journal . great improvement over the design of the uniform wooden binssuch as are ordinarily encountered in railroad storehouses, andwrhich unquestionably waste a vast amount of space, as all binsare of the same size, irrespective of the variation in demandfor the objects which they The bins herein illustrated are made in the form of a gigan-tic cabinet. Flat pieces of steel form the back and dividingpartitions, upright and horizontal, and stove bolts through the angles make the entire bin secure and permit of shelves are held at the front by shelf supports, when it isdesired to use the shelf as a bin to prevent small material fromfalling out, but when to be used simply as a shelf it is sup-ported by a hanger. The general design may be likened to the ordinary egg is made up of a continuous center partition or back, the fulllength of the bin. This center partition, which is a bick for a
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