. American engineer and railroad journal . vertical in such a wayas to bring the chute against a measuring device which recordsthe horizontal thrust of the load due to the angularity of thesupport. This plan was worked out on the Northern Pacific,hut its use has not extended, probably because f a lack of sen-sitiveness of the weighing and a difficulty of inaccuracy whenthe chutes are only partly filled. By placing the entire chuteon si ales, large scales are required, but the results are sure tohe accurate. In this construction the scales are housed andsheltered, which takes them out of the cl
. American engineer and railroad journal . vertical in such a wayas to bring the chute against a measuring device which recordsthe horizontal thrust of the load due to the angularity of thesupport. This plan was worked out on the Northern Pacific,hut its use has not extended, probably because f a lack of sen-sitiveness of the weighing and a difficulty of inaccuracy whenthe chutes are only partly filled. By placing the entire chuteon si ales, large scales are required, but the results are sure tohe accurate. In this construction the scales are housed andsheltered, which takes them out of the class of track scabs. i . AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 21 This work on the Chicago & Alton Is being done under contractin connection with water station improvements. II is attract-ing considerable attention among railroad men who are anx-ious to improve their fuel records. The starting point in thisdirectionis accurate knowledge of the amounts of coal de-livered It is also important to reduce the cist or Handling the. Scctton Through Pockets on Scales. Sand Btor Stud «.iu- 1 c=-f i 300 in Pocket l Track BO Tgu Pock«(on scale? Ail, Bin ul !.» Track J-r? E ,v:ili,r Plan of Buildings. ■* Coal Chute—Chicago 8c Alton Railway. coal hy labor-saving methods. It is obvious that in such plantsas Ihese this cost, will be very low. Working loads for manila rope is a subject upon whichthere are comparatively little data. In a paper before theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers Mr. C. W. Huntdiscussed the features concerning loads for hoisting gave data In definite and satisfactory terms and presentedthe results of experiments and also of his wide tables of the paper include working loads for ropes ofvarious sizes, the minimum diameter of sheaves for variousspeeds and the ultimate strength of different sizes of rope. Already more perfectly balanced high-speed engines are de-manded, and successful efforts to reduce the weights o
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