. The Street railway journal . FIG. 3—PART PLAN OF TURBINE AND GENERATOR ROOMS. the power plant is located. It will be seen that the tur-bines are belted to pulleys on the main line shaft extend-ing the whole length of the wheel room, and continuingthrough the partition walls into and along one side of thegenerator room. The pulleys are thrown into or out ofaction by Hunter clutches mounted with pulleys on quills,so that any or all of the wheels can be applied to drivingthe shafts. Similar pulleys and clutches are furnished inthe dynamo rooms for throwing in or out the variousmachines that may
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 3—PART PLAN OF TURBINE AND GENERATOR ROOMS. the power plant is located. It will be seen that the tur-bines are belted to pulleys on the main line shaft extend-ing the whole length of the wheel room, and continuingthrough the partition walls into and along one side of thegenerator room. The pulleys are thrown into or out ofaction by Hunter clutches mounted with pulleys on quills,so that any or all of the wheels can be applied to drivingthe shafts. Similar pulleys and clutches are furnished inthe dynamo rooms for throwing in or out the variousmachines that may there be placed. Fig. 4 shows the wheel room and the arrangement ofthe turbines and line shaft. There are three double,forty-two inch, horizontal wheels and one double, twenty- fc^- • • •.. FIG. 2- -BALTIC MILL, SHOWING RESERVOIR ANDGATES. INTAKE FIG. 4.—TURBINE ROOM AT BALTIC. drive it from two 350 h. p. Corliss engines, the existingdam being insufficient in capacity. In Fig. 1 are shownthe relative positions of the generating station at Balticand the receiving station at Taftville. The line is nearlyfour and one half miles in length and is carried along thehighway up the river, skirting its bank in places andcrossing it at intervals to shorten its route. The rebuilt mill and generating station at Baltic isshown in Fig. 2. In the basement of this building arethe wheel and dynamo rooms of the generating mill is of four stories, built of stone, and will pres-ently be used as the Ponemah Mills in the cotton weavingindustry. 400 ft. above the mill a fine stone dam 525 seven inch wheel, the former developing 800 effectiveh. p. each, at 157 revolutions per minute, and the latter 300h, p. at 244 revolutions per minute. The belts passobliquely upward to the pulleys
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