. Electric railway gazette . AMERICAN TUKBIKES. of the firemen. Even where such provision forthe convenience of the firemen is not compulsory,it will be found an adventage to the railwaycompanies to adopt such a system on thicklysettled streets; for without the section switch athand, the firemen will soon learn to use their clip-pers or axe to sever the wires, rather than workamong heavily charged conductors, so that thesection switch may be termed an economizer ofrepairs, as well as a preventive of delays totraffic. These switches are made by C. S. VanNuis, of New York City. AMEillCAN TTTEBIN
. Electric railway gazette . AMERICAN TUKBIKES. of the firemen. Even where such provision forthe convenience of the firemen is not compulsory,it will be found an adventage to the railwaycompanies to adopt such a system on thicklysettled streets; for without the section switch athand, the firemen will soon learn to use their clip-pers or axe to sever the wires, rather than workamong heavily charged conductors, so that thesection switch may be termed an economizer ofrepairs, as well as a preventive of delays totraffic. These switches are made by C. S. VanNuis, of New York City. AMEillCAN TTTEBINES IN STREET RAIL-WAY WORK. The outfit in the accompanying cut representsa pair of 30-inch American turbines placed influmes 5 feet diameter, 5 feet and 3 inches long,. FIG. 1. HARTFORD WOVEN WIRE SEAT. made of |-inch tank steel, with cast iron headsand mouth-piece for attaching supply pipe 42Inches in diameter. The flume is supported bytwo steel I beams 20 feet long, with cast ironcross ties for connecting I beams, and bracketsfor bolting down the flume. These wheels areworking under an actual fall of 94 feet, and thepower Is transmitted vertically from the waterwheel shaft to a line shaft by means of a ropedrive. The driving sheave pulley on the waterwheel shaft is 40 Inches in diameter with 30 MOTOR DRIVEN LATHE. pairs of horizontal turbines of the same size,placed adjoining one another, and the water isbrought to both flames through a wrought ironsupply pipe 00 inches diameter, nearly sLx: hun-dred feet long. The main supply pipe ends in astandplpe made of oast iron in the shape of aletter T, with inlet pipe 60 inches in diameterand outlet pipes 43 inches in diameter. The sup-ply pipes leading to the flumes are furnished withLudlow valves for shu
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