. Railway mechanical engineer . Emergency Jack with Adjustable Base the jack at any angle from the vertical to 30 deg. from thehorizontal. A heavy trunnion bearing supports the socket. Atrip at the back of the base is provided to hold the frame rigidin a vertical position, the releasing of which permits the pivotingof the body on the base. The equipment of the jack includeslive feet of chain and a live-foot steel lever bar. The jack hasa capacity of 15 tons. NATIONAL HOSE COUPLING The accompanying illustration shows a new type of hose coup-ling recently placed on the market by the National Hos
. Railway mechanical engineer . Emergency Jack with Adjustable Base the jack at any angle from the vertical to 30 deg. from thehorizontal. A heavy trunnion bearing supports the socket. Atrip at the back of the base is provided to hold the frame rigidin a vertical position, the releasing of which permits the pivotingof the body on the base. The equipment of the jack includeslive feet of chain and a live-foot steel lever bar. The jack hasa capacity of 15 tons. NATIONAL HOSE COUPLING The accompanying illustration shows a new type of hose coup-ling recently placed on the market by the National Hose CouplingCompany, Peoples Gas Bldg., Chicago, 111. This coupling pro-vides a positive means of applying a coupling to a rubber indicated in the illustration, the hose is inserted in the cor-. Sectional View of the National Hose Coupling rugatcd socket and a steel taper expander is screwed into thesocket, forcing the hose out against the corrugation. The endsof the socket and the expander are rounded to prevent injuryto the hose. No special tools are required for application. August, 1915 RAILWAY AGK GAZKTTK, MKCHANICAL EDITION 433 RECORDER FOR MKASURINC; FLOW OVERWEIRS With any type of weir or orifice the rate of flow is dependentupon the head, and once the law of the weir or orifice is known,it may he calcidated directly. For most purposes of measure-ment, however, mere knowledge of the rate of flow at a given
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