. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . FIG. C. The object of this improvement is to afforda quick and easy method of removing oilboxes from the pedestal jaws of car trucks. This process, it is well known, has hereto-fore been a tedious and expensive one, fromthe fact of its being often required to removeoil boxes for the purpose of repacking therear end of the boxes to exclude the dust, re-tain the oil, and fit bearings to the journals &c In the old methods to remove an oil boxthe truck had to be taken from under the carand the wheels from the truck,
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . FIG. C. The object of this improvement is to afforda quick and easy method of removing oilboxes from the pedestal jaws of car trucks. This process, it is well known, has hereto-fore been a tedious and expensive one, fromthe fact of its being often required to removeoil boxes for the purpose of repacking therear end of the boxes to exclude the dust, re-tain the oil, and fit bearings to the journals &c In the old methods to remove an oil boxthe truck had to be taken from under the carand the wheels from the truck, but by plan a slight elevation of the cor-ner of the truck, of one or two inches is all that is required in removing and replacingthe box. My patent consists of a novel con-struction of the oil box, and what I term agum spring plate, furnished with lugss pro-jecting in recesses down the sides of the object is to secure the lateral strain. A is a vertical section through the pedestal (1) Gum Spring (2) Gum SpringPlate (3) and oil box (4). Figure B is atransvers
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